Tracing Autism

Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and the Affective Labor of Neuroscience

By:

Des Fitzgerald

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Paperback / softback

Series:

In Vivo: the Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science

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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.

Author Biography:

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

Release date Australia

July 11th, 2017

Author

Des Fitzgerald

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

226

Series

In Vivo: the Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science

ISBN-13

9780295741918

Product ID

26245878

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