Stuart Murray

Autism (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Autism is the first book to analyze the condition through the ways in which it is expressed in medical, historical and cultural narratives. The book aims to present a rounded portrayal of the ways that autism is currently represented in the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136652189
• Artikelnr.: 38404907

Autorenporträt

Stuart Murray is Professor of Contemporary Literatures and Film and Director of Medical Humanities research in the School of English at the University of Leeds in the UK. He is the author of Representing Autism: Culture, Narrative, Fascination (Liverpool UP, 2008) and a number of articles on disability representation.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Part One: The Facts. 1. What we Know... Or Don't. 2. The body, the
brain and the person: biology, neurology and self. 3. The detail of
diagnosis. 4. Intervention and treatment: metaphors, objects and subjects.
5. The gender question and the nature of being. 6. Conclusion: after the
fact. Part Two: Social, Cultural and Political Histories. 1. Autism before
modern medicine. 2. The development of child psychiatry: Kanner and
Asperger. 3. Psychoanalysis, Bruno Bettelheim, parents and blame. 4.
Organization and Associations. 5. The rise of neurodiversity: demands,
advocacy and legislation. 6. Cultural representations: outsider and insider
accounts. 7. Conclusion: history in the making. Part Three: Major
Controversies. 1. A lack of consensus. 2. Causing Autism. 3. Autism and the
idea of the cure. 4. Conclusion: Autism and the human - again. Afterword:
Autistic Presence.