Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Love as an Analytic Tool 1 Part One Chapter 1: Research Programs, Autistic Disturbances,and Human Difference 29 Chapter 2: Love Is Not Enough: Bruno Bettelheim, Infantile Autism,and Psychoanalytic Childhoods 61 Chapter 3: Expert Amateurs: Raising and Treating Children with Autism 93 Interlude: Parents Speak: The Art of Love and the Ethics of Care 125 Part Two Chapter 4: Brains, Pedigrees, and Promises: Lessons from the Politics of Autism Genetics 141 Chapter 5: Desperate and Rational: Parents and Professionals in Autism Research 167 Chapter 6: Pandora's Box: Immunizations, Parental Obligations,and Toxic Facts 197 Conclusion: What the World Needs Now: Learning About and Acting on Autism Research 229 Notes 237 Bibliography 313 Index 329
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