Description |
1 online resource |
Contents |
Cover -- Chasing the Intact Mind -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. THE HISTORY OF THE INTACT MIND -- 1. Valuing the Disabled Child: The Emergence of Disability Memoirs, 1950-1956 -- 2. Whose Fault Is It? Psychoanalysis and the First Autism Parent Memoirs, 1941-1976 -- 3. Is There a "Key"? Biomedical Discourse and Second-Generation Autism Memoirs, 1980s-Present -- PART II. THE CASE STUDIES -- 4. The Fight to Eliminate 14(c) -- 5. The Erosion of Guardianship -- 6. The Resurgence of Facilitated Communication -- Conclusion -- Notes |
Summary |
In 'Chasing the Intact Mind', Amy Lutz traces the history of the 'intact mind' concept, explaining how it influences current disability policy and practice in the United States. Lutz describes how we got to this moment, where the severely autistics are elided out of public discourse and the intensive, disability-specific supports they need defunded or closed altogether. Lutz argues that focusing on the intact mind and marginalizing those with severe disability reproduces historic patterns of discrimination that yoked human worth to intelligence, and that it is only by making space for the impaired mind that we will be able to resolve these ongoing clashes - as well as even larger questions of personhood, dependency, and care |
Notes |
Also issued in print: 2024 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Audience |
Specialized |
Notes |
Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 17, 2023) |
Subject |
Autistic people -- Social conditions
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Autistic people -- Biography
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Developmentally disabled -- Social conditions
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Developmentally disabled -- Biography
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Parents of autistic children -- Biography -- History and criticism
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Parents of developmentally disabled children -- Biography -- History and criticism
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Autistic people.
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Developmentally disabled.
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Developmentally disabled -- Social conditions.
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Clinical & internal medicine.
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Health and Wellbeing.
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Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780197683873 |
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0197683878 |
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