Neurodivergent Youthhoods

As transitional healthcare becomes an increasing fixture within paediatric and adolescent healthcare, this book captures how normative, biomedical and psychologised understandings of youth development permeates social life.

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).

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