PLoS Biology on the "vaccine-autism wars" by Eugene Raikhel
The open-access journal PLoS Biology has a very good article about the persistence of theories linking autism to vaccines, in spite of any biomedical evidence to support such a link. The piece is...
View ArticleDaedalus: On Being Human by Eugene Raikhel
I’ve written here in the past about the National Humanities Center’s On the Human Forum–a site meant to foster discussion about what “the human” has or is coming to mean in the context of contemporary...
View ArticleSpecial issue of Ethos on autism by Eugene Raikhel
Apologies for the far-too-long hiatus in posts. Things should be getting back to normal in the coming weeks. In any case, the March issue of Ethos was titled “Rethinking Autism, Rethinking...
View ArticleOlga Solomon on Anthropology and the Study of Autism by Eugene Raikhel
More of the articles in the 2010 issue of the Annual Review of Anthropology are now available online (unfortunately only to those with subscriptions or institutional access). One of the most...
View ArticleCritical Autism Studies Workshop by Eugene Raikhel
On September 24 and 25, the University of Ottawa is hosting a workshop entitled “Critical Autism Studies: Enabling Inclusion, Defending Difference,” organized by Michael Orsini, associate professor of...
View ArticleA report on the 2010 4S conference in Tokyo by Talia Weiner
Contributed by Talia Weiner (University of Chicago) The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) conference this August was not just a site of interdisciplinary and cross-cultural scholarly exchange,...
View Article"Neuroscience and subjectivity": a special journal issue by Eugene Raikhel
The latest issue of Subjectivity — which focuses on “Neuroscience and subjectivity” — includes a number of interesting articles in the rapidly advancing discussion around neuroscience and society. In...
View ArticleAutism, sociality, and human nature by Gregory Hollin
There are, I believe, a few reasons to suppose that autism is a particularly fascinating area to be studying at the moment. What are those reasons? Firstly, prevalence rates of autism have soared in...
View ArticleNew Modes of Understanding and Acting on Human Difference in Autism Research,...
The current issue of BioSocieties is a special issue, entitled “New Modes of Understanding and Acting on Human Difference in Autism Research, Advocacy, and Care” and edited by Gil Eyal, Des Fitzgerald,...
View ArticleNaoki Higashida’s The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old...
The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida Translated by K.A. Yoshida and David Mitchell; Introduction by David Mitchell Random House, 2013. 176 pages....
View Article“Body Leads”: Medicalizing Cultural Difference, or, what are we doing when we...
A recent USA Today article described a report from a Department of Defense think tank study that suggested that President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin has “neurological abnormalities” and,...
View ArticleMaking Disability Count: Demography, Futurity, and the Making of Disability...
If one considers people who now have disabilities, people who are likely to develop disabilities in the future, and people who are or who will be affected by the disabilities of those close to them,...
View ArticleConceptualizing Autism Around the Globe — A special issue of Culture,...
The current issue of Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry is a special issue, edited by M. Ariel Cascio and entitled “Conceptualizing Autism Around the Globe“. Along with six original articles, the issue...
View ArticleNo Judgments: Fieldwork on the Spectrum by Faye Ginsburg
Spectrum:a broad range of varied but related ideas or objects, the individual features of which tend to overlap so as to form a continuous series or sequence. (Dictionary.com) The presence of...
View ArticleWhen Risk, Doubt, and Difference Converge: A Review Essay by Elizabeth Lewis
On Immunity: An Inoculation By Eula Biss Graywolf Press, 2014, 205 pp. The End of Normal: Identity in a Biocultural Era By Lennard J. Davis University of Michigan Press, 2013, 155 pp. Autism and...
View ArticleAutism Spectrum Disorders in Global, Local and Personal Perspective: a...
Last September, a group of scholars gathered at the State University of Rio de Janeiro for “Autism Spectrum Disorders in Global, Local and Personal Perspective: A Cross-Cultural Workshop”. The event...
View ArticleBeing Seen: An Interview with Anlor Davin by David Platzer
Introduction In the early years of the 21st century, Ian Hacking wrote a series of essays on the theme of autistic subjectivity. These eclectic, occasional essays were, he later told Andrew Lakoff, a...
View ArticleBook Forum––Des Fitzgerald’s Tracing Autism: Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and the...
Des Fitzgerald writes of his book, Tracing Autism, “This is a book about scientists talking about their own practice, in tones that are beset by ambiguity, uncertainty, complexity, and even some...
View ArticleAutism in Translation: An Intercultural Conversation on Autism Spectrum...
Autism in Translation: An Intercultural Conversation on Autism Spectrum Conditions Edited by Elizabeth Fein and Clarice Rios Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 304 pages. Autism in Translation: An...
View ArticleDisability Justice and Material Needs: Reflections on the Experiences of...
As a member of NYU’s Disability Equity in the Time of COVID-19 research team during the summer of 2020[1], I had the opportunity to conduct seven virtual interviews by Zoom or phone with autistic...
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