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Autism has enticed a great deal of attention lately, thanks to significantly increasing rates of medical diagnosis, considerable organizational mobilization, journalistic coverage, biomedical research, and clinical development. Understanding Autism, a sociable history of the growing diagnostic category of this contested disorder, requires a close look at the role of emotion - specifically, of parental love - in the strong and keen work of biomedical neighborhoods looking into autism. Chloe Silverman tracks developments in autism theory and practice over the past half-century and shows how an understanding of autism has been constituted and stabilized through vital efforts of colleges, gene bankers, professional associations, administration committees, parent systems, and treatment conferences. She examines the love and labor of parents, who are likely involved in producing - together with doctors - new varieties of treatment and remedy because of their children. While biomedical knowledge is dispersed via an emotionally neutral, technical vocabulary that separates experts from laypeople, parental advocacy and activism call these distinctions into question. Silverman reveals how parental attention is a constant drivers in the volatile field of autism research and treatment, and has dished up as an inspiration for technological change. Recognizing the importance of parental knowledge and observations in dealing with autism, this reserve reveals that effective responses to the disorder show the shared interdependence of love and technology.

Category: Autism & Asperger's Syndrome

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Publisher	Audible Studios
Language	English
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DATE	2014-03
Author	Chloe Silverman

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