This series is linked to the Case of the Human based at UChicago's Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society. It's a collaborative project spanning the humanities and social science and medicine:

neubauercollegium.uchicago.edu/research/cas...

The cases themselves will be published once a month over the coming year and each one features a social science concept applied to a clinical case. Here's the first one, "Medical compartmentalisation: a patient with chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome in Japan": www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

And for a text that uses ethnography to give a rich account of the lives of young people on the spectrum (and push back on the overall framing of autism by RFK jr and others), I highly recommend Elizabeth Fein's Living on the Spectrum: Autism and Youth in Community. nyupress.org/978147986435...

For those interested in deeper dive into the history and an account which explains why it looks like incidence has increased, The Autism Matrix by sociologist Gil Eyal is also excellent: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

...as opposed to non-excessive pathological selfishness?

At a moment when higher education is threatened by forces that seek to destroy it and its role in a democratic society, the anticipatory obedience shown by this rush to judgment must be avoided.

Link to statement here:

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So so frightening….

Congratulations!