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Looping Genomes: Diagnostic Change and the Genetic Makeup of the Autism Population
2016
American Journal of Sociology
This article builds on Hacking's framework of "dynamic nominalism" to show how knowledge about biological etiology can interact with the "kinds of people" delineated by diagnostic categories in ways that "loop" or modify both over time. The authors use historical materials to show how "geneticization" played a crucial role in binding together autism as a biosocial community and how evidence from genetics research later made an important contribution to the diagnostic expansion of autism. In the
doi:10.1086/684201
pmid:27092389
fatcat:ip3asx3um5e5vfvmeorkfs4cqe