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Autism : a social and medical history / Mitzi Waltz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waltz, Mitzi, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Autism--Social aspects.
- Autism.
- Autistic people--Social conditions.
- Autistic people.
- People with mental disabilities.
- Social ecology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 284 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
- Contents:
- 1: A Nameless Difference
- 2: Autism Before and After the Enlightenment
- 3: Workhouses, Asylums, and the Rise of Behavioural Sciences
- 4: The Social Construction of Autism
- 5: From 'Pathological Motherhood' to Refrigerator Mothers
- 6: Bedlam, Behaviourism and Beyond
- 7: Parent Blaming, Parent Power, and the Start of Real Research
- 8: Self-advocacy and the Rise of the Medical Model Footnotes References Index.
- Notes:
- Previous edition: 2013.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Waltz, Mitzi. Autism.
- ISBN:
- 9783031310157
- 3031310152
- Publisher Number:
- 99994213362
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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