{"product_id":"9780816698318-multiple-autisms","title":"Multiple Autisms","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSpectrums of Advocacy and Genomic Science. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJennifer S. Singh setsout to discover how autism emerged as a genetic disorder and how this affectsthose who study autism and those who live with it. This is the first sustainedanalysis of the practices, politics, and meaning of autism genetics from ascientific, cultural, and social perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e. \u003cp\u003eIs there a gene for autism? Despite a billion-dollar, twenty-year effort to find out—and the more elusive the answer, the greater the search seems to become—no single autism gene has been identified. In \u003ci\u003eMultiple Autisms,\u003c\/i\u003e Jennifer S. Singh sets out to discover how autism emerged as a genetic disorder and how this affects those who study autism and those who live with it. This is the first sustained analysis of the practices, politics, and meaning of autism genetics from a scientific, cultural, and social perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2004, when Singh began her research, the prevalence of autism was reported as 1 in 150 children. Ten years later, the number had jumped to 1 in 100, with the disorder five times more common in boys than in girls. Meanwhile the diagnosis changed to “autistic spectrum disorders,” and investigations began to focus more on genomics than genetics, less on single genes than on hundreds of interacting genes. \u003ci\u003eMultiple Autisms\u003c\/i\u003e charts this shift and its consequences through nine years of ethnographic observations, analysis of scientific and related literatures, and morethan seventy interviews with autism scientists, parents of children with autism, and people on the autism spectrum. The book maps out the social history of parental activism in autism genetics, the scientific optimism about finding a gene for autism and the subsequent failure, and the cost in personal and social terms of viewing and translating autism through a genomic lens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow is genetic information useful to people living with autism? By considering this question alongside the scientific and social issues that autism research raises, Singh’s work shows us the true reach and implications of a genomic gaze.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40853407596641,"sku":"9780816698318","price":21.82,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/2c7d8e632fc79500d4389a410b4f4619.png?v=1685559660","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780816698318-multiple-autisms","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}