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How autism became autism: The radical transformation of a central concept of child development in Britain

This article argues that the meaning of the word ‘autism’ experienced a radical shift in the early 1960s in Britain which was contemporaneous with a growth in epidemiological and statistical studies in child psychiatry. The first part of the article explores how ‘autism’ was used as a category to de...

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Autor principal: Evans, Bonnie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3757918/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24014081
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0952695113484320