Tan Spaces on the Spectrum

How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-231-55633-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Drawing on more than three years of ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with participants, Catherine Tan investigates two autism-focused movements, shedding new light on how members contest expert authority.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tan, Catherine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Psychopathologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Autismus und Asperger-Syndrom

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Position
Acknowledgments
1. Warriors and Aliens: Challenging Autism Experts
2. Reimagining Autism: As a Difference to Accept, as a Sickness to Treat
3. Seeking Hope and Support: Pathways to Autism Movements
4. Knowing One’s Tribe: The Transformation of Autistic Rights Into Reality
5. Laboratories and Experimentation: The Tools and Strategies of “Recovery”
6. The Outsiders: Resisting Criticism and Claiming Legitimacy
7. Making Space for the Spectrum
Appendix A. Interview Protocols
Appendix B. Participants
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Catherine Tan is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Vassar College.