自閉症の時代
The Rise of Autism
Risk and Resistance in the Age of Diagnosis
Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
Russell, Ginny
- 出版社：Routledge
- 出版年月：2020年 12月
- ISBN：9780367250812
- 装丁：HRD
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装丁について
- 言語：ENG
- 巻数・ページ数：192 p.
- 分類： 医療社会学・生命倫理 , 臨床一般
- DDC分類：616.85882
- 内容紹介：
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This book investigates and examines why increasing numbers of people are being diagnosed with autism, arguing that the increased use of autism diagnosis is due to medicalisation across the life-course, whilst also considering modern day environmental exposures, and crucially asking whether autism itself is useful as a diagnostic category.