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Tracing Autism: Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and the Affective Labor of Neuroscience
Contributor(s): Fitzgerald, Des (Author)
ISBN: 0295741910     ISBN-13: 9780295741918
Publisher: University of Washington Press
OUR PRICE:   $33.25  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Psychopathology - Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Medical | Neuroscience
- Social Science | Anthropology - General
Dewey: 616.858
LCCN: 2016049325
Series: In Vivo: The Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science
Physical Information: 0.48" H x 7.5" W x 9.25" (0.88 lbs) 226 pages
 
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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.