This title provides new answers to this most puzzling and often controversial of disorders, combining moving stories, personal experience and the latest science. It is about Anthropologist and father Roy Richard Grinker's heartfelt, deeply touching quest to understand autism - and his powerful, compelling conclusions.When Roy Richard Grinker's daughter Isabel was diagnosed with autism in 1994, he knew nothing about the condition. It was considered rare, occurring in about 3 in every 10,000 births. Within ten years, however, ...
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This title provides new answers to this most puzzling and often controversial of disorders, combining moving stories, personal experience and the latest science. It is about Anthropologist and father Roy Richard Grinker's heartfelt, deeply touching quest to understand autism - and his powerful, compelling conclusions.When Roy Richard Grinker's daughter Isabel was diagnosed with autism in 1994, he knew nothing about the condition. It was considered rare, occurring in about 3 in every 10,000 births. Within ten years, however, most Westerners would be familiar with autism. Scientists have now reported rates as high as 1 in 100, and autism has been called an epidemic.Driven to learn more about this dramatic increase - both as an anthropologist and a father - Grinker set forth on a journey around the world, talking to mothers and fathers, physicians and teachers, advocates and scientists. Travelling from Africa and India to East Asia, from the mountains of Appalachia to America's National Institutes of Health, Grinker made a surprising and controversial discovery about the so-called autism epidemic that would change both his understanding of the disorder and his relationship with his daughter.Filled with moving stories, and informed by the latest science and Grinker's own experience, "Unstrange Minds" is a powerful testament to a father's quest for the truth, and is urgently relevant to anyone whose life is touched by one of history's most puzzling disorders.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 9781840468939. Size: 8"-9" Tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Medicine & Health; ISBN/EAN: 9781840468939. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 11568.
