Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 132 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 191 g
Histories of Childhood Behavioural Disorders
Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 132 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 191 g
Reihe: Studies in Inclusive Education
ISBN: 978-90-8790-700-6
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers
The book provides an account of the historical contexts in which the biomedical and social bases for disorders have been formulated, showing that both sets of understandings draw on common phenomena and use similar instruments to reach their conclusions. Outlined are a series of formative locations whence particular and localized governmental problems to do with managing discrete populations rub up against fairly inauspicious technical solutions, focused on pivotal events in specific institutional and social spaces. These include changes to the spatial organization of classroom; changes in the science of policing social space; the war-time development and extended clinical deployment of the electroencephalograph; the hand-in-hand emergence of computer and cognitive science; and the effects of the computer itself on the way we conceptualize brain-space. The book treats the appearance of the child with behavior disorder as an achievement of various agencies of science-and-government, rather than an initial encounter for discovering scientific truths.