Tracing Autism: Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and the Affective Labor of Neuroscience

by Des Fitzgerald

Book Overview

In Tracing Autism, Des Fitzgerald offers an up-close account of the search for a neurological explanation of autism. As autism has gained cultural prominence with more diagnoses and more controversy, its biological causes remain elusive.

Through in-depth interviews with neuroscientists, psychologists, and psychiatrists, Fitzgerald examines what it means to do scientific research in the ambiguous terrain of autism research, a field...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295741910
• ISBN13: 9780295741918
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.5" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher