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Article: Unstrange minds.(Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism)(Book review)
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- Journal of Clinical Investigation
- Article date:
- December 1, 2007
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Remapping the world of autism
Roy Richard Grinker
Basic Books. New York, New York, USA. 2007.
340 pp. $26.95. ISBN: 978-0-465027637 (hardcover).
With incendiary dialogue dominating the discussion of autism these days, an enlightened perspective is truly welcome. In Unstrange minds, Roy Richard Grinker, an anthropologist and parent of a child with autism, offers that perspective. Grinker tackles the most controversial issues--etiology and epidemic--and describes his experience raising a daughter with autism. Moreover, Grinker presses the reader to understand autism as shaped by culture and the historical framework through which it's been viewed over the past 50 ...