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Autism, Accommodation and Treatment: A Rejoinder to Chong‐Ming Lim's Critique

Overview of attention for article published in Bioethics, August 2015
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Title
Autism, Accommodation and Treatment: A Rejoinder to Chong‐Ming Lim's Critique
Published in
Bioethics, August 2015
DOI 10.1111/bioe.12183
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Authors

Pier Jaarsma, Stellan Welin

Abstract

We are very grateful to Chong-Ming Lim for his thoughtful reply published in this journal on one of our articles, which motivated us to think more carefully about accommodating autistic individuals and treating autism. However we believe there are some confusions in Lim's argument. Lim uses the accommodation thesis, according to which we should accommodate autistic individuals rather than treat autism, as the starting point for his reasoning. He claims that if the accommodation thesis is right, then we should not treat autistic individuals for their autism, not even low-functioning (i.e. intellectually disabled) ones, because this would be disrespectful to all autistic individuals. We should instead limit ourselves to accommodate all autistic individuals. However, the opposition between accommodation and treatment is not valid in the case of autism, because of ambiguity in the concepts of accommodation and treatment. Moreover there is confusion in Lim's reasoning caused by omitting important facts about the practice of treating autism.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
France 1 7%
Unknown 14 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 4 27%
Student > Bachelor 3 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 13%
Lecturer 1 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 7%
Other 1 7%
Unknown 3 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 4 27%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 20%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 7%
Social Sciences 1 7%
Other 1 7%
Unknown 4 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 September 2015.
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#14,517,105
of 25,750,437 outputs
Outputs from Bioethics
#768
of 1,373 outputs
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#125,821
of 279,870 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Bioethics
#5
of 22 outputs
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