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• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface: Autism, and How We Got Here
• Acknowledgements
• 1. A Nameless Difference
• 2. Autism before and after the Enlightenment
• 3. Workhouses, Asylums, and the Rise of Behavioural Sciences
• 4. The Social Construction of Autism
• 5. From ‘Pathological Motherhood’ to Refrigerator Mothers
• 6. Bedlam, Behaviourism, and Beyond
• 7. Parent Blaming, Parent Power, and the Start of Real Research
• 8. Self-Advocacy vs. the Rise of the Medical Model
• Notes
• References
• Index