Overview
- Strikes a balance between critical perspectives and ‘real life’ challenges of navigating disabling impairments
- Contributes to the literature psychiatric disability, and questions the psychiatric basis of autism
- Takes a critical approach to language-in-use, while attending to the social and cultural construction of autism
Part of the book series: Education, Equity, Economy (EEEC, volume 9)
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Book Title: The Social, Cultural, and Political Discourses of Autism
Authors: Jessica Nina Lester, Michelle O'Reilly
Series Title: Education, Equity, Economy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-2134-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-024-2133-0Published: 14 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-2136-1Published: 14 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-94-024-2134-7Published: 13 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2364-835X
Series E-ISSN: 2364-8368
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 199
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Child and School Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Disability Studies, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry