Constructing a social subject: autism and human sociality in the 1980s
(2014)
Journal Article
Hollin, G. (2014). Constructing a social subject: autism and human sociality in the 1980s. History of the Human Sciences, 27(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695114528189
This article examines three key aetiological theories of autism (meta-representations, executive dysfunction and weak central coherence), which emerged within cognitive psychology in the latter half of the 1980s. Drawing upon Foucault’s notion of ‘fo... Read More about Constructing a social subject: autism and human sociality in the 1980s.