ArticleCulture, medicine and psychiatry2015
"Maybe at birth there was an injury": drivers and implications of caretaker explanatory models of autistic characteristics in Kerala, India.
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- Towards a "New Mothering" Practice? The Life Experiences of Mothers Raising a Child with Autism in Urban Ethiopia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- 'We've come a very, very, long way' Overcoming stigma of autism: An interpretative phenomenological analysis within the UK Jewish community.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2022Article
- Vaccines and autism: a preliminary qualitative study on the beliefs of concerned mothers in Italy.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2020Article
- Symptom Recognition to Diagnosis: Pathway to Care for Autism in a Tertiary Care Medical Centre.Journal of neurosciences in rural practice · 2020Article
- Culturally diverse families of young children with ASD in Sweden: Parental explanatory models.PloS one · 2020Article
- Parenting Stress and Resilience in Parents of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in Southeast Asia: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Asperger's Syndrome, Subjectivity and the Senses.Culture, medicine and psychiatry · 2016Article
- Custodial Homes, Therapeutic Homes, and Parental Acceptance: Parental Experiences of Autism in Kerala, India and Atlanta, GA USA.Culture, medicine and psychiatry · 2015Article
- Introduction. Cross-cultural autism studies, neurodiversity, and conceptualizations of autism.Culture, medicine and psychiatry · 2015Article
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Abstract
Explanatory models (EMs) are the way people explain the presence and meaning of an illness or disability and are reliant on and reflective of culturally specific values of normalcy, disability, health, and illness. EMs about autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are particularly revealing because there is no known cause, and so people can explain this disability in ways more appropriate for and useful to them. This article presents caretaker EMs about children with autistic characteristics in Kerala, India. I argue that the reliance on biological, but not genetic, causal models is reflective of the state's high access to biomedical heath care. These EMs are used to deflect the stigma of 'bad blood' and reflect a nuanced relationship between stigma and biological EMs. Understanding how caretakers talk about ASD and related conditions is critical for anyone interested in engaging in crosscultural or international autism-related work.
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