| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 299 pages) |
| Contents |
Foreword / Anne McGuire -- Part One. Forging the autism industrial complex: manufacturing foundational commodities (1943-1987) -- Part Two. (Re)branding and marketing the AIC: manufacturing markets, consumers & consumer confidence (1987-present) -- Part Three. The economic apparatus of the AIC: incorporation, legislation, and capital investment (1998-present) -- Part Four. Autism and biocapital: on precarity and futurity |
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Autism, Inc.: The Autism Industrial Complex / by Alicia A. Broderick and Robin Roscigno -- Consuming Autism as Social Problem and the Cultural Logic of Intervention / by Alicia A. Broderick and Robin Roscigno -- Rhetoric and Neoliberalism: On (Re)Branding and Consuming Hope -- The Politics of Hope: Autism and 'Recovery [to Normalcy]' -- The Politics of Truth: Deploying Scientism in ABA Rhetoric -- The Politics of Fear: The Fires that Forged the Economic Apparatus of the AIC -- Intervention, Inc.: Nonprofit Corporations and Venture Capital -- Prevention, Inc.: The Cultural Logic of Prevention, Basic Research, Hedging Bets, and Perennial (re)Branding -- Autism and Biocapitalist Emergences: Biopolitical Technologies of Control -- On Being Autistic in Neoliberal Capitalist Ruins: Endemic Precarity and Autistic Futurity |
| Summary |
Autism--a concept that barely existed 75 years ago--currently feeds multiple, multi-billion-dollar-a-year, global industries. In "The autism industrial complex : how branding, marketing, and capital investment turned autism into big business," Alicia A. Broderick analyzes how we got from the 11 children first identified by Leo Kanner in 1943 as "autistic" to the billion-dollar autism industries that are booming today. Broderick argues that, within the Autism Industrial Complex (AIC), almost anyone can capitalize on-- and profit from-- autism, and she also shows us how. The AIC has not always been |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Autism -- Economic aspects
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Medical economics.
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Economics, Medical
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Medical economics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Roscigno, Robin, contributor
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McGuire, Anne, 1981- writer of foreword.
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| ISBN |
9781975501860 |
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1975501861 |
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9781975501877 |
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197550187X |
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