The age of autism : mercury, medicine, and a man-made epidemic / Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill.
- Olmsted, Dan.
- Date:
- 2010
- Books
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Description
From the worst cases of syphilis to Sigmund Freud's first cases of hysteria, from baffling new disorders in 19th century Britain to the modern scourge of autism, this book traces the long overlooked history of mercury poisoning. It demonstrates with clarity how chemical and environmental clues may have been missed as medical "experts," many of them blinded by decades of systemic bias, instead placed blamed on parental behavior or children's biology.
Publication/Creation
New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2010.
Physical description
xi, 430 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
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Contents
The age of syphilis -- The age of hysteria -- The age of acrodynia -- Pollution -- Targeted toxins -- Germination -- The wrong branches -- Growing like a weed -- Fruit of the poisoned tree -- Digging up the roots -- Epilogue : the nightmare and the dream.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicinePV /OLMOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 9780312545628
- 0312545622