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Amy Lutz

Title: Senior Lecturer, Department of History and Sociology of Science

Institution: University of Pennsylvania

Discipline: Literature & Writing

Appearances: 1

Notable: Author of We Walk: Life with Severe Autism (2020) and Chasing the Intact Mind (2023); Vice President of the National Council on Severe Autism; widely published in The Atlantic, Psychology Today, Spectrum, and Slate

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Biography

Amy Lutz is a historian of medicine and bioethicist whose research focuses on severe intellectual and developmental disability, challenging the social model of disability. She is also the mother of a profoundly autistic son, which informs her advocacy and scholarship.

Sample Works

Chasing the Intact Mind: How the Severely Autistic and Intellectually Disabled Were Excluded from the Debates That Affect Them Most (2023) Book
We Walk: Life with Severe Autism (2020) Book
Each Day I Like It Better: Autism, ECT, and the Treatment of Our Most Impaired Children (2014) Book

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