The Rise of Autism Risk and Resistance in the Age of Diagnosis

Free Download Ginny Russell, "The Rise of Autism: Risk and Resistance in the Age of Diagnosis "
English | ISBN: 0367695464 | 2022 | 192 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The Open Access version of this book, available www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429285912, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

This innovative book addresses the question of why increasing numbers of people are being diagnosed with autism since the 1990s. Providing an engaging account of competing and widely debated explanations, it investigates how these have led to differing interpretations of the same data. Crucially, the author argues that the increased use of autism diagnosis is due to medicalisation across the life course, whilst holding open the possibility that the rise may also be partly accounted for by modern-day environmental exposures, again, across the life course.
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