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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Critical Autism Studies: Notes on an Emerging FieldMichael Orsini and Joyce Davidson

Part I. Approaching Autism1. Autism in an Age of Empathy: A Cautionary CritiquePatrick McDonagh2. Autism and the PosthumanStuart Murray3. Cerebralizing Autism within the Neurodiversity MovementFrancisco Ortega4. Autism as a Form of Biological CitizenshipCharlotte Brownlow and Lindsay O’Dell

Part II. Researching the Politics and Practice of Care5. Autism and Genetics: Profit, Risk, and Bare LifeMajia Holmer Nadesan6. Caring for Autism: Toward a More Responsive StateKristin Bumiller7. Participatory Research with Autistic Communities: Shifting the SystemDora Raymaker and Christina Nicolaidis

Part III. Diagnosis and Difference in Autism8. Capturing Diagnostic Journeys of Life on the Autism SpectrumSara Ryan9. Divided or Opposed?: The Level of Functioning Arguments in Autism Related Political Discourse in CanadaDana Lee Baker and Lila Walsh 10. Autism and Social Movements in France: A Comparative PerspectiveBrigitte Chamak and Beatrice Bonniau

Part IV. Cultural Productions and Representations of Autism11. Narrating AutismMark Osteen12. The Shifting Horizons of Autism OnlineJoyce Davidson and Michael Orsini 13. Autism and the Task of the TranslatorKristina Chew 14. “All the Things I Have Ever Been”: Autoethnographic Reflections on Academic Writing and AutismDawn Eddings Prince

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    Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
    Publication Date: 14/11/2013
    ISBN13: 9780816688890, 978-0816688890
    ISBN10: 0816688893
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    Description

    Book Synopsis


    Table of Contents

    Contents

    AcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Critical Autism Studies: Notes on an Emerging FieldMichael Orsini and Joyce Davidson

    Part I. Approaching Autism1. Autism in an Age of Empathy: A Cautionary CritiquePatrick McDonagh2. Autism and the PosthumanStuart Murray3. Cerebralizing Autism within the Neurodiversity MovementFrancisco Ortega4. Autism as a Form of Biological CitizenshipCharlotte Brownlow and Lindsay O’Dell

    Part II. Researching the Politics and Practice of Care5. Autism and Genetics: Profit, Risk, and Bare LifeMajia Holmer Nadesan6. Caring for Autism: Toward a More Responsive StateKristin Bumiller7. Participatory Research with Autistic Communities: Shifting the SystemDora Raymaker and Christina Nicolaidis

    Part III. Diagnosis and Difference in Autism8. Capturing Diagnostic Journeys of Life on the Autism SpectrumSara Ryan9. Divided or Opposed?: The Level of Functioning Arguments in Autism Related Political Discourse in CanadaDana Lee Baker and Lila Walsh 10. Autism and Social Movements in France: A Comparative PerspectiveBrigitte Chamak and Beatrice Bonniau

    Part IV. Cultural Productions and Representations of Autism11. Narrating AutismMark Osteen12. The Shifting Horizons of Autism OnlineJoyce Davidson and Michael Orsini 13. Autism and the Task of the TranslatorKristina Chew 14. “All the Things I Have Ever Been”: Autoethnographic Reflections on Academic Writing and AutismDawn Eddings Prince

    ContributorsIndex

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