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The Autism Matrix: The Social Origins of the Autism Epidemic

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The Autism Matrix: The Social Origins of the Autism Epidemic - Eyal, Gil
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"The authors argue that the recent rise in autism should be understood as an 'aftershock' of the real earthquake, which was the deinstitutionalization of mental retardation in the mid-1970s. This entailed a radical transformation not only of the institutional matrix for dealing with developmental disorders of childhood, but also of the cultural lens through which we view them. It opened up a space for viewing and treating childhood disorders as neither mental illness nor mental retardation, neither curable nor incurable, ...

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The Autism Matrix: The Social Origins of the Autism Epidemic 2010, Polity Press, Cambridge, England

ISBN-13: 9780745644004

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