The Rise of Autism: Risk and Resistance in the Age of Diagnosis (Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness) - Softcover

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Russell, Ginny

 
9780367695460: The Rise of Autism: Risk and Resistance in the Age of Diagnosis (Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness)

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This book investigates and examines why increasing numbers of people are being diagnosed with autism, aruging that the increased use of autism diagnosis is due to medicalisation across the life-course and crucially asking whether autism itself is useful as a diagnostic category.

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Ginny Russell is Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter, in the UK. She co-leads the Health and Illness theme at Egenis (the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences) in the College of Social Science and International Studies, as well as co-leading the Epidemiology and Qualitative Research stream of ChYMe (the Children and Young People's Mental Health collaboration) based at the College of Medicine and Health.

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9780367250812: The Rise of Autism: Risk and Resistance in the Age of Diagnosis (Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness)

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ISBN 10:  0367250810 ISBN 13:  9780367250812
Verlag: Routledge, 2020
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