Constructing Autism: Unravelling the 'Truth' and Understanding the Social

By Majia Holmer Nadesan. 2005

168 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Literature and Literary Theory

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/131aecbdf1824fdacaf5825c3d9aab9183053ef8

Citations in the corpus

• Critical autism studies: exploring epistemic dialogues and intersections, challenging dominant understandings of autism (2016, unknown): “There are three main trends: the search for the characteristics of the ‘autistic brain’; the quest for an autism genotype(s); and research on co-morbidity and environmental influences (Nadesan 2005).”
• The Cerebral Subject and the Challenge of Neurodiversity (2009, unknown): “From the 1940s to the 1960s, and even to the mid 1970s, especially in the US, psychoanalytical explanations were paramount both in psychiatric theory and clinical practice (Nadesan, 2005).”