1st Edition
Neurodivergent Youthhoods Adolescent Rites of Passage, Disability and the Teenage Epilepsy Clinic
By Shelda-Jane Smith
Copyright 2024
164 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
164 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
164 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Adolescent rites of passage are ubiquitous sociocultural processes that feature across all manner of social activity. As transitional healthcare becomes an increasing fixture within paediatric and adolescent healthcare, this book captures how normative, biomedical and psychologised understandings of youth development permeate social life.
Through an in-depth institutional ethnography of a UK... Read more
1. Introduction
2. Bridging Cultures of Care
3. (Neuro)scientisation
4. Cultural Scripts
5. The Parentectomy
6. Betwixt and Between
7. The Paraclinical Workforce
8. Dignity in Care
Biography
Shelda-Jane Smith is Lecturer at the University of Liverpool, School of Environmental Sciences, UK. She is a social scientist exploring the relationship between medical and environmental sciences and culture, disability, race and the human life course. She is the co-author of A Beginners Guide to Building Better Worlds: Ideas and Inspiration from the Zapatistas (2022).
