Bibliograph

The age of autism, mercury, medicine, and a man-made epidemic, Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill

Type

Label

The age of autism, mercury, medicine, and a man-made epidemic, Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The age of autism

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

555656274

Responsibility statement

Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill

Sub title

mercury, medicine, and a man-made epidemic

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

Table Of 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

resource.variantTitle

Autism

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