Biomedicalización de los tiempos: terapéuticas, biosocialidades y cuidados cotidianos en familias de niños y niñas con diagnóstico de TEA en Buenos Aires

Abstract The influence of the Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) diagnosis on the perception and organization of time in daily life by families, especially mothers, of children diagnosed with ASD is analyzed. Results stem from two graduate investigations. The methodology is qualitative, reconstructing the life stories of four mothers who, throughout 2015, accompanied their children diagnosed with ASD to a Therapeutic Center in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Two lines are considered: first, the medicalization and biomedicalization as concentric ringed processes in three levels: macro, m...