Nadesan, Majia Holmer, 1965-

Constructing autism : unravelling the'truth' and understanding the social / Majia Holmer Nadesan - Milton Park, Oxfordshire : Routledge, 2005 - vi, 248 p. ; 24 cm.

Constructing autism: the dialectic of biology and culture, nature and mind -- Psychiatric niche conditions -- Childhood niche conditions -- Psychological discourses -- Bio-genetic approaches construct autism -- The dialectics of autism: theorizing autism, performing autism, remediating autism, and resisting autism -- Directions in the ontology of persononhood: the new genetics, genomics, and opportunities for somatic subjects

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Autistic disorder--Psychology
Education, Special
Socioeconomic Factors

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