The Rise of Autism
"This innovative book addresses the question of why increasing numbers of people are being diagnosed with autism since the 1990s. Providing an engaging account of competing and widely debated explanations, it investigates how these have led to differing interpretations of the same data. Crucially, t...
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2021
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| author | Russell, Ginny |
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| description | "This innovative book addresses the question of why increasing numbers of people are being diagnosed with autism since the 1990s. Providing an engaging account of competing and widely debated explanations, it investigates how these have led to differing interpretations of the same data. Crucially, the author argues that the increased use of autism diagnosis is due to medicalisation across the life course, whilst holding open the possibility that the rise may also be partly accounted for by modern-day environmental exposures, again, across the life course.
A further focus of the book is not on whether autism itself is valid as a diagnostic category, but whether and how it is useful as a diagnostic category, and how the utility of the diagnosis has contributed to the rise. This serves to move beyond the question of whether diagnoses are 'real' or social constructions, and instead asks: who do diagnoses serve to benefit, and at what cost do they come?
The book will appeal to clinicians and health professionals, as well as medical researchers, who are interested in a review of the data which demonstrates the rising use of autism as a diagnosis, and an analysis of the reasons why this has occurred. Providing theory through which to interpret the expanding application of the diagnosis and the broadening of autism as a concept, it will also be of interest to scholars and students of sociology, philosophy, psychiatry, psychology, social work, disability studies and childhood studies." |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-315812025-06-11T06:22:39Z The Rise of Autism Russell, Ginny adulthood;adults;age;artificial;autism;childhood;children;diagnosis;Epidemiology;infancy;medicalisation;real;resistance;risk;women thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology "This innovative book addresses the question of why increasing numbers of people are being diagnosed with autism since the 1990s. Providing an engaging account of competing and widely debated explanations, it investigates how these have led to differing interpretations of the same data. Crucially, the author argues that the increased use of autism diagnosis is due to medicalisation across the life course, whilst holding open the possibility that the rise may also be partly accounted for by modern-day environmental exposures, again, across the life course. A further focus of the book is not on whether autism itself is valid as a diagnostic category, but whether and how it is useful as a diagnostic category, and how the utility of the diagnosis has contributed to the rise. This serves to move beyond the question of whether diagnoses are 'real' or social constructions, and instead asks: who do diagnoses serve to benefit, and at what cost do they come? The book will appeal to clinicians and health professionals, as well as medical researchers, who are interested in a review of the data which demonstrates the rising use of autism as a diagnosis, and an analysis of the reasons why this has occurred. Providing theory through which to interpret the expanding application of the diagnosis and the broadening of autism as a concept, it will also be of interest to scholars and students of sociology, philosophy, psychiatry, psychology, social work, disability studies and childhood studies." 2021-02-10T13:51:46Z 2021-02-10T13:51:46Z 2020-12-10T16:30:27Z 2021 book OCN: 1193558621 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/43211 9780429285912 9780367250812 9780367695460 9780367695460 9780429285912 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/31581 eng Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/43211/2/9781000334968.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/43211/2/9781000334968.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/43211/2/9781000334968.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/43211/2/9781000334968.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9780429285912 10.4324/9780429285912 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9780429285912 9780367250812 9780367695460 9780367695460 9780429285912 Routledge 202 open access |
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