Autism: A Social and Medical History

Preface: Autism, and How We Got Here
Acknowledgements
	A Word About Language
Contents
Chapter 1: A Nameless Difference
	References
Chapter 2: Autism Before and After the Enlightenment
	References
Chapter 3: Workhouses, Asylums and the Rise of the Behavioural Sciences
	References
Chapter 4: The Social Construction of Autism
	Naming Autism
	Leo Kanner’s Case Studies
	Melanie Klein and ‘Richard’
	The Power of Narrative
	Autism Meets Behaviourism
	Medical Research Passes Autism By
	The Impact of the Social Construction of Autism
	References
Chapter 5: From ‘Pathological Motherhood’ to ‘Refrigerator Mothers’
	Child Guidance and Mother Guidance
	Theorising the Boundaries of Deviance
	Bringing It All Back Home
	References
Chapter 6: Bedlam, Behaviourism and Beyond
	Behaviourist Methods
	Teaching the TEACCH Way
	Medical and Therapeutic Dead Ends
	References
Chapter 7: Parent-Blaming, Parent Power and Research
	Parent Narratives of Autism
	From Parent Activism to Parent-Driven Research
	Research Progress: Diagnosis and Interventions
	The Importance of Diagnosis
	Creating a Behavioural and Cognitive Profile
	References
Chapter 8: Parents Behind the Wheel: Danger Ahead?
	Living Through the ‘Autism Wars’
	Autism in the Media
	References
Chapter 9: Autism Self-Advocacy: Achievements and Challenges
	From Contact to Communication
	From Communication to Activism
	From Activism to Policymaking
	References
Chapter 10: Genetics, Genomics and the Medical Model of Autism
	From ‘Epidemic’ Rhetoric to a Renewed Medical Model of Autism
	Medical Ethics: A Moving Target
	Genetic/Genomic Autism Research After Folstein and Rutter
	Conclusions
	References
Afterword: A New Politics of Autism?
References
Index