The metamorphosis of autism : a history of child development in Britain /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English. |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2017.
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| Series: | Social histories of medicine.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
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.