Moral hierarchies within autism parenting: Making parent-therapists and perpetuating disparities within contemporary China

Drawing upon 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in China from 2013 to 2014, this article argues that moral hierarchies within autism parenting in fact reproduce local socioeconomic inequalities. In China, medical specialists, special education teachers and prominent parent advocates attempt to mana...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lin, Emily Xi
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128391