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Constructing Autism: Unravelling the \'truth\' and understanding the social
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Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
2 Constructing autism: A dialectic of biology and culture, nature and mind
Diagnostic autism: classical readings and contemporary nosologies
Disease and representation
Constructing autism in the twentieth century
3 Psychiatric niche conditions
Setting the stage: the history of madness
Normality and pathology: dividing nineteenth-century populations
Children and madness
4 The history of childhood: Ontologies, institutional divisions, child saving and child guidance
The emergence of the child: constituting childhood, formalizing education
Educating children, dividing children, sequestering children
Child guidance, child psychiatry, and new categories of childhood pathology
Identifying niche conditions
5 Psychological discourses construct autism
The rise of psychoanalysis 1940–1960: the Zeitgeist of the times
Psychoanalysis and autism in English-speaking countries: ego psychology and the mother–infant relationship
The rise of the cognitive paradigm: 1970–2004
Autism and cognitive psychology
Cognitive constructions: problematic assumptions and alien models
Conclusions on psychological constructions of autism: looking back at the twentieth century
6 Biogenetic approaches construct autism
Biological psychiatry and geneticization: the cultural Zeitgeist
Autism: the search for causal agents
Concluding thoughts on the search for causal agents
7 The dialectics of autism: Theorizing autism, performing autism, remediating autism, and resisting autism
Theorizing disease/disablement: autism as socially constructed
Identifying autism, treating autism, experiencing autism
Identity politics and autism advocacy
Concluding thoughts: autism as disease/disablement, difference, and genius
8 Directions in the ontology of personhood: the new genetics, genomics, and opportunities for somatic subjects
References
Index