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020			_a9780429285912 _q(ebook)
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020			_a9781000335026 _q(electronic bk. : EPUB)
020			_a100033502X _q(electronic bk. : EPUB)
020			_a9781000334999 _q(electronic bk. : Mobipocket)
020			_a1000334996 _q(electronic bk. : Mobipocket)
020			_a9781000334968 _q(electronic bk. : PDF)
020			_a1000334961 _q(electronic bk. : PDF)
020			_z9780367250812 _q(hardback)
035			_a(OCoLC)1193558621
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100	1		_aRussell, Ginny, _d1965- _eauthor. _918813
245	1	4	_aThe rise of autism : _brisk and resistance in the age of diagnosis / _cGinny Russell.
264		1	_aMilton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; _aNew York, NY : _bRoutledge, _c2021.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bn _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aRoutledge studies in the sociology of health and illness
520			_a"This book investigates and examines why increasing numbers of people are being diagnosed with autism. Providing an engaging account of competing and widely debated explanations, and examining how these have led to differing interpretations of the same data, 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. The book also places crucial focus not on whether autism itself is valid as a diagnostic category, but whether it is useful as a diagnostic category, and how the functionality of the diagnosis has contributed to the rise. This serves to move beyond the question of whether diagnoses are "real" or social constructions, and instead asks: who do autism diagnoses serve to benefit, and at what cost do they come? The book will appeal to clinicians and health professionals, as well as medical researchers, who are interested in review of the data which demonstrates the rising use of autism as a diagnosis worldwide, and an analysis of the reasons why this has occurred. Providing theory through which to interpret the expanding application of the diagnosis and the broadening of autism as a concept, it will also be of interest to scholars and students of sociology, philosophy, psychiatry, psychology, social work, disability studies and childhood studies"-- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
650		0	_aAutism.
650		0	_aAutism _xDiagnosis. _918815
650		0	_aAutism _xEnvironmental aspects. _918816
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General _2bisacsh
856	4	0	_3Taylor & Francis _uhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429285912
856	4	2	_3OCLC metadata license agreement _uhttp://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
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