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Evans B. The Metamorphosis of Autism: A History of Child Development in Britain. Manchester (UK): Manchester University Press; 2017.

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The Metamorphosis of Autism: A History of Child Development in Britain.

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Figure 3. ‘A ward for imbeciles in a mental deficiency hospital’, c.1956, from Leslie Hilliard and Brian Kirman, Mental Deficiency ( London: Churchill, 1957).

Figure 3‘A ward for imbeciles in a mental deficiency hospital’, c.1956, from Leslie Hilliard and Brian Kirman, Mental Deficiency ( London: Churchill, 1957)

From: Chapter 4, The transformation of social life and the transformation of autism in the 1960s

© Bonnie Evans 2017.

This electronic version has been made freely available under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) licence, thanks to the support of The Wellcome Trust. A copy of the licence can be viewed at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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