Contents

Acknowledgements

vii

Prologue: Dynamics and Ethics of Autism

ix

PART I: DIMENSIONS OF AUTISM

1

1.

The Origins of Autism

3

2.

The Nature of Psychiatric Diagnoses

13

3.

Cognitive Explanations of Autism: Beyond Theory of Mind

33

4.

Sociological and Historical Explanations of Autism

51

PART II: EXPERIENCES OF AUTISM

63

5.

Difference and Disability

65

6.

Epistemic Injustice and Language

81

7.

Experiences of Autism

93

(written with Raymond Langenberg)

8.

Interlude: Autism and Time

105

PART III: DYNAMICS OF AUTISM

115

9.

Labels and Looping Effects

117

10.

Dynamic Approaches

129

11.

Autism and Genetics

141

Epilogue: Towards an Ethics of Autism

157

Bibliography

165

Index

179

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