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

Fitzgerald, Des

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ISBN 10: 0295741910 ISBN 13: 9780295741918

Casa editrice: Univ of Washington Pr, 2017

Riassunto

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 marked by shifting horizons of uncertainty and ambivalence. He draws out how autism scientists talk and feel their way through their research, demonstrating its profoundly affective character, and expanding our understanding of what is at stake in the new brain sciences.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Des Fitzgerald is lecturer in sociology at Cardiff University. He is the coauthor of Rethinking Interdisciplinarity across the Social Sciences and Neurosciences.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Washington Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0295741910
• ISBN 13: 9780295741918
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 214
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile