Naming Adult Autism: Culture, Science, Identity
- Submitting institution
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Leeds Beckett University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- McGrath1
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Rowman and Littlefield
- ISBN
- 978-1-78348-040-1
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Naming Adult Autism confronts dominant patterns in how autism is narrated, historicizing (and challenging) assumptions that autistics may succeed in STEM areas but not the arts. The book critiques six novels, three poetry collections, two films, two television series and two popular music texts, as well as twelve major scientific publications and four diagnostic screening questionnaires. Theoretical models are drawn from philosophy and from medical sociology, to illustrate how the humanities and sciences might reach better understandings of autism. Employing creative criticism, the book contains one chapter in the form of a poem, and ten autobiographical short stories as footnotes.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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