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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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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