Cavanaugh Lecture: kim elmore
Details
| Date(s) | 10/12/2012 |
| Time | 12:00pm - 1:30pm |
| Location |
MPAC |
Description
The second Cavanaugh lecture of the season this Friday begins at noon in the 3rd floor conference room of the Multi-Purpose Academic Center at noon when you can hear Mrs. Kim Elmore speak about “What is Autism? DSM-5 Development, Expert Ways of Knowing, and the Progress of Science.”
The topic should be relevant to anyone interested in rhetoric, the construction of knowledge, and treatment of disease. Mrs. Elmore will specifically look at the “. . . the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) . . . [published] draft of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) online (http://www.dsm5.org/Pages/Default.aspx) . . .” and. . . . [examine] the rhetoric of the DSM-5 narrative and changes to the classification of autism” in order to explore “the promises and limitations of the DSM-5 revision process as an “open system” of shared scientific expertise.”