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

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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    History of Medicine
    PV /OLM
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ISBN

  • 9780312545628
  • 0312545622