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... relationship between citizens and scientific experts in the policy-making process can be seen in the current debate between the neurodiversity movement and anti-autism groups over the needs of autistic people. However, this article shows that within policy discussions, both groups have been (re)constructed...

... supplies, insurance, managed care, and more. Leaving those aside, she devotes the bulk of her attention to health care givers at the clinical interface with patients in such sectors as physician and dental practices, home and hospice care businesses, substance abuse, eating disorder and autism agencies...

..., hospice and dialysis, are reliant on Medicare and Medicaid for their revenues. Drug and alcohol rehabilitation, autism therapy and physicians are also highly dependent on these programs for a portion, if not the lion's share, of their income. There is clearly something amiss when financial firms can take...

... of the world" (244). Rich connects this critique of China to Edward Luttwak's concept of "great state autism" (244), a term which the neurodiverse would likely not appreciate. To fund the UN 3.0, Rich calls for Tobin taxes on globalization that the UN would somehow collect directly from businesses...

..." of a textured world, alive with difference.36 While I think that there are many deeper issues to explore here about the way in which Manning and Massumi take on the issue of autism as a form of experience (which I cannot 33Brian Massumi, Parables for the Virtual; Erin Manning, Politics ofTouch: Sense, Movement...

... that minimizes noise and visual stressors on cattle, the slaughter process can be humane and relatively painless to the animals. See also, Temple Grandin, Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (New York: Scribner, 2005). 398 Katherine E. Young business to include...

... cases, the parents ground their claim explicitly in religion. In other cases, claims are grounded in the belief, deeply held it seems but without empirical evidence, that vaccines cause autism. While vaccination is generally required in order to enroll children in school, forty-seven states in the US...