Senior Lecturer
University of Pennsylvania
Villanova, Pennsylvania
Dr. Amy S.F. Lutz is a historian of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Vice-President of the National Council on Severe Autism (NCSA). She has written about issues relating to severe autism for many platforms, including The Atlantic, Slate, and Psychology Today. Her first book, Each Day I Like It Better: Autism, ECT, and the Treatment of Our Most Impaired Children, was published in 2014; her second book, We Walk: Life with Severe Autism, was published in 2020; and her third book, Chasing the Intact Mind: How the Severely Autistic and Intellectually Disabled Were Excluded from the Debates that Affect Them Most, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press on October 1. She lives outside Philadelphia with her husband and whichever of her five children happen to be home at the moment. Her oldest son Jonah, 24, is severely autistic.
Monday, May 1, 2023
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
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