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Podcast: Ian Hacking ‘Making up Autism’

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Research Summary: Making Up Autism

Topic: Philosophical and historical analysis of autism classification and diagnosis
Speaker: Professor Ian Hacking
Lecture Type: Inaugural C. L. Oakley Lecture in Medicine and the Arts
Institution: University of Leeds
Date: 13 May 2013
Format: Podcast recording now available
Focus: The social construction and historical emergence of autism as a diagnostic category
Evidence Grade: Philosophical and humanities-based critical analysis of medical nosology


A podcast of Professor Ian Hacking’s ‘Making Up Autism’ – Inaugural C. L. Oakley Lecture in Medicine and the Arts, University of Leeds, 13 May 2013 – is now available here.

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