Re-Thinking Autism: Diagnosis, Identity and Equality - Softcover

 
9781849055819: Re-Thinking Autism: Diagnosis, Identity and Equality

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Challenges the existing models of autism, the practices related to them, including diagnosis, `treatment', and societal attitudes - essential reading for all professionals in the field

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Katherine Runswick-Cole is a Senior Research Fellow in Disability Studies and Psychology at The Research Centre for Social Change: Community Wellbeing, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She locates her work in the field of critical disability studies. She is co-editor of Disabled Children's Childhood Studies and co-author of Approaching Disability: Critical Issues and Perspectives.Rebecca Mallett is Principal Lecturer in Education and Disability Studies at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She has a background in Social and Cultural Geography and is interested in the cultural aspects of disability. She is co-author of Approaching Disability: Critical Issues and Perspectives.Sami Timimi is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Visiting Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Lincoln, UK. He writes from a critical psychiatry perspective on topics related to mental health and has authored, co-edited and co-authored many books, including The Myth of Autism: Medicalising Boys' and Men's Social and Emotional Competence.

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