Who owns the concept of Tourette's?

Whittaker, Daniel

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Whittaker, Daniel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3583-7508 (2025) Who owns the concept of Tourette's? In: Towards Tourettic Studies Symposium, 25 Nov 2025, Online. (Unpublished)

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Tourettic studies is a recent interdisciplinary movement that seeks to promote research exploring the lived experiences of people with Tourette syndrome and offer new ways of thinking about Tourette's. In this paper, I argue that the success of 'Tourettic studies' relies on perceptions of ownership of Tourette's as a concept, and that wresting the concept from the medical arena is vital toward (re)conceptualising Tourette's. In addition, shifting the semantic balance of Tourette's towards the Tourettic experience is vital in addressing social stigma in public discourse. However, I caution that the 'Tourette' in 'Tourettic studies' reifies further medical gatekeeping as a result of medicine's definitional and diagnostic power.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Lecture)
Divisions:	College of Arts, Humanities and Education > School of Education
Depositing User:	Daniel Whittaker
Date Deposited:	01 Dec 2025 21:16
Last Modified:	01 Dec 2025 21:16
URI:	https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/id/eprint/15760

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