Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Abbreviations for Archives and Government Acts
  • Bibliography
  • Index.