Elizabeth Fein, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University, USA. Dr. Fein is a psychological anthropologist and licensed clinical psychologist who uses clinical ethnography to explore the intersections of culture and neurodevelopmental difference. 

Clarice Rios, Ph.D., is Lecturer in Social Psychology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil. A psychological anthropologist, her current research explores the biopolitics of autism treatment within the Brazilian Unified Health System.

1. Autism in Brazil and the United States.- 2. Challenges to Psychiatric Reform: Autism in Italy and Brazil.- 3. Commentary.- 4. Music and Autism, Representation and Re-presentation: An Ethnomusicological Perspective.- 5. Compelling Structures: Autism as a Mode of Engagement.- 6. Autism and First Person Accounts: The Cognitive Problem.- 7. Commentary.- 8. Expert On Your Own Child, Expert On Your Own World - Reinventing Autism Expertise(s).- 9. AS: Classification, Interpellation.- 10. Who Owns Autism?: Economics, Fetishism, and Stakeholders.- 11. Commentary.- 12. Culture, Autism and Psychological Anthropology.- 13. Commentary.