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0238/2017 - Specialism, specificity and identity – the controversies around autism in the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS)
Especialismo, especificidade e identidade - as controvérsias em torno do autismo no SUS

Author:

• Clarice Monteiro Machado Rios - Rios, Clarice Monteiro Machado - <clarice.r@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4246-962X

Co-author(s):

• Kenneth Rochel Camargo Jr. - Camargo Jr, K.R - <kencamargo@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3606-5853

Thematic Area:

Ciências Sociais

Abstract:

The approval of federal law 12.764/2012 represented a victory for the political activism of parents of autistic people in Brazil, and also gave visibility to the enormous antagonism between a significant number of parents of autistic people and the mental health network. This article examines the perspectives of different social actors involved in the controversy that took place after the approval and enactment of this law, and seeks to show why this controversy precedes the law and is not resolved by it. We argue that the troubled relationship between the political movement of parents of autistic people and the mental health network can be better understood once one takes the construction and consolidation of a network of expertise around autism spectrum disorders as inseparablethe construction of a social and political identity for autistic people in Brazil. The article draws inspirationthe Studies of Expertise and Experience, which discuss the new regime of relations between scientific research and civil society. Nevertheless, we also demonstrate that consolidation of this expertise network has been happening in spite of the absence of a wide specialized treatment network and of a profound reconfiguration in the regime of scientific research and production of knowledge about autism in Brazil.

Keywords:

autism; expertise; experience; identity.

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Rios, Clarice Monteiro Machado, Camargo Jr, K.R. Specialism, specificity and identity – the controversies around autism in the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS). Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2017/Jul). [Citado em 22/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/specialism-specificity-and-identity-the-controversies-around-autism-in-the-brazilian-unified-health-system-sus/16287?id=16287&id=16287



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