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Des Fitzgerald's Tracing Autism: Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and the Affective PDF

By Des Fitzgerald

ISBN-10: 0295741902

ISBN-13: 9780295741901

ISBN-10: 0295741910

ISBN-13: 9780295741918

In Tracing Autism, Des Fitzgerald bargains an up-close account of the hunt for a neurological rationalization of autism. As autism has won cultural prominence with extra diagnoses and extra controversy, its organic explanations stay elusive.

Through in-depth interviews with neuroscientists, psychologists, and psychiatrists, Fitzgerald examines what it capability to do clinical examine within the ambiguous terrain of autism study, a box marked through moving horizons of uncertainty and ambivalence. He attracts out how autism scientists speak and think their approach via their examine, demonstrating its profoundly affective personality, and increasing our knowing of what's at stake within the new mind sciences.

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