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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Olmsted, Dan.     Subjects     Autism -- Environmental aspects.     Mercury -- Toxicology.     Autism -- Etiology.     Autism -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Olmsted, Dan.       by title:      The age of autism : ...         MARC Display

The age of autism : mercury, medicine, and a man-made epidemic / Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill. by Olmsted, Dan. New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2010. Subjects Autism -- Environmental aspects.   Mercury -- Toxicology.   Autism -- Etiology.   Autism -- History. ISBN:  9780312545628 (alk. paper) : 0312545622 (alk. paper) Description:  xi, 430 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. Edition:  1st ed. 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. Requests:  0 Summary:  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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 616.85 Ol item being mended Add Copy to MyList

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