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- Title
Intelligent Love: The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother by Marga Vicedo (review).
- Authors
Richardson, Sarah S.
- Abstract
Through Park, Vicedo relates the powerful story of how parent-expert advocates who rejected mother-blaming theories and demanded that their children receive an education contributed to radical changes in the understanding and treatment of autism. That said, not all will be satisfied with Vicedo's resolution of these high-tension issues, most especially because the experiences of Jessica appear in the text only through the mediated observations of her mother and other care givers. In the face of the muddle of psychology's approach to "infantile autism" in the 1950s and 1960s, Park applied her full humanity, pragmatism, empathy, and empiricism to educating her autistic child.
- Subjects
INTELLIGENT Love: The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter &; the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother (Book); MOTHER-daughter relationship; DISABILITY rights movement; AUTISM in children; DAUGHTERS; MOTHERS
- Publication
Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 2021, Vol 95, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
0007-5140
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/bhm.2021.0050