Description Autism is a complex phenomenon that is both individual and social.
A psychological anthropologist, her current research explores the biopolitics of Autism treatment within the Brazilian Unified Health System..
D., is Lecturer in Social Psychology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil.
Clarice Rios, Ph.
Fein is a psychological anthropologist and licensed clinical psychologist who uses clinical ethnography to explore the intersections of culture and neurodevelopmental difference.
Dr.
D., is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University, USA.
Weisner Enrico Valtellina About the Author Elizabeth Fein, Ph.
Ariel Cascio Jurandir Freire Costa B rbara Costa Andrada Cassandra Evans Elizabeth Fein Clara Feldman Roy Richard Grinker Rossano Lima Francisco Ortega Dawn Prince-Hughes Clarice Rios Laura Sterponi Thomas S.
Featuring contributions from: Michael Bakan Benilton Bezerra Pamela Block M.
It contains a series of comparative histories of Autism policy in Italy, Brazil, and the United States; focuses on issues of voice, narrative, and representation in autism; and examines how the concept of Autism shapes both individual lives and broader social and economic systems.
This book is the product of the ongoing Conversation emerging from this event.
So, in 2015, a group of interdisciplinary scholars gathered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for an intellectual experiment: a workshop that joined approaches from psychological anthropology to the South American tradition of Collective Health in order to consider Autism within social, historical, and political settings.
Yet it is often misrepresented as a problem of broken bodies and disordered brains.
Showing both robust similarities and intriguing differences across cultural contexts, the Autism Spectrum raises innumerable questions about self, subjectivity, and society in a globalized world.
Description Autism is a complex phenomenon that is both individual and social
