Tracing Autism

Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and the Affective Labor of Neuroscience

Des Fitzgerald (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

226 Seiten

2017
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
9780295741901 (ISBN)

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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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	05.07.2017
Reihe/Serie	In Vivo: the Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science
Verlagsort	Seattle
Sprache	englisch
Maße	191 x 235 mm
Gewicht	612 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Persönlichkeitsstörungen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Studium
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9780295741901 / 9780295741901
Zustand	Neuware