The mass media provides a frame for discourse around important health issues, and it has
been widely demonstrated that the development and reinforcement of stereotypes of …

In September 2008, the human papillomavirus (HPV) immunisation programme was
introduced in the UK for schoolgirls aged between 12 and 18 years of age. The vaccine …

Accessible summary• This study examines how autism is portrayed in newspapers in the
United Kingdom.• The findings indicate that many of the stories about autism are not based …

This study examined television news networks' coverage of autism in terms of issues,
sources, and personal (episodic) or social (thematic) responsibility from the framing …

Repertoires are basic analytic units in discourse analysis and discursive psychology,
characterized as repeatable building blocks speakers use for constructing versions of …

As differentiation within scientific disciplines increases, so does differentiation between the
sciences and other ways of knowing. This distancing between 'scientific'and 'non …

In this paper, we seek to explore the tensions between advocacy and self advocacy autistic
movements in a Swedish context with a special focus on the meanings that enable the …

In this chapter, we discuss the ways in which a biological explanation of autism has been
refashioned into a neurological account of neurodiversity. The neurodiversity discourse …

Background: Language around autism plays a crucial role in shaping public attitudes toward
autistic people. The use of identity-first versus person-first language and impersonal …

In 1998, British surgeon and researcher Andrew Wakefield published a paper in the British
journal The Lancet, suggesting that there was a link between the triple vaccine against …