Metamorphosis of Autism - A History of Child Development in Britain

Informationen zum Autor Bonnie Evans is Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow in the History Department at Queen Mary, University of London Klappentext This is the first detailed exploration of the history of autism in the UK. Drawing from extensive and highly original archival research as well as investigations of published literature it describes the political, social and institutional background which made the study and increased diagnosis of autism possible. Zusammenfassung This is the first detailed exploration of the history of autism in the UK. Drawing from extensive and highly original archival research as well as investigations of published literature it describes the political! social and institutional background which made the study and increased diagnosis of autism possible. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Perceiving, describing and modelling child developmentPart I: The first autism: The observation and description of child development before 19591: The first autism2: The first autism controversies3: Inside the Maudsley Child Psychotic Clinic in the 1950sPart II: How autism became autism4: The transformation of social life and the transformation of autism in the 1960s5: How do you measure a social impairment?6: Epidemiology, epidemics and autism as a global health crisisConclusionIndex

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• Authors: Bonnie Evans, Bonnie (Lecturer in the History of Medicine Evans, Evans Bonnie
• Assisted by: Keir Waddington (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.02.2017
• EAN: 9780719095924
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9592-4
• No. of pages: 512
• Series: Social Histories of Medicine; Social Histories of Medicine
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; England, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Autism Spectrum Disorders, 20th Century, MEDICAL / History, MEDICAL / Pediatrics, MEDICAL / Neurology, 21st Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Medicine, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome, Paediatric medicine, Autism & Asperger's Syndrome