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Unstrange minds : remapping the world of autism / Roy Richard Grinker.
- Title
- Unstrange minds : remapping the world of autism / Roy Richard Grinker.
- Author
- Grinker, Roy Richard, 1961-
- Publication
- New York : Basic Books, c2007.
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Text | Request in advance | RC553.A88 G75 2007 | Off-site |
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- Description
- vii, 340 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- A father's attempt to understand his daughter's autism leads him on a journey around the world to learn how societies view the widely diagnosed disorder.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-328) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: bringing autism into focus -- One in three hundred -- Theme and variation: the "discovery" of autism -- Stigma, shame, and secrets -- Blaming mothers -- The rise of diagnosis -- Autism by the book -- Autism by the numbers -- Isabel in Monet's garden -- Igloos in India -- Breaking the rules -- Half past winter in South Korea -- Becoming visible -- Getting in tune -- Beyond the curve.
- ISBN
- 9780465027637 (hardcover)
- 0465027636 (hardcover)
- LCCN
- ^^2006023003
- OCLC
- 70660044
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library