Bonnie Evans

The metamorphosis of autism

A history of child development in Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 514
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9780719095924
• ISBN-10: 0719095921
• Artikelnr.: 47547057

Autorenporträt

Bonnie Evans is Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow in the History Department at Queen Mary, University of London

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Perceiving, describing and modelling child development Part
I: The first autism: The observation and description of child development
before 1959 1: The first autism 2: The first autism controversies 3: Inside
the Maudsley Child Psychotic Clinic in the 1950s Part II: How autism became
autism 4: The transformation of social life and the transformation of
autism in the 1960s 5: How do you measure a social impairment? 6:
Epidemiology, epidemics and autism as a global health crisis Conclusion
Index