The age of autism : mercury, medicine, and a man-made epidemic / Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill.
Olmsted, Dan.; Blaxill, Mark, 1958-
2010
RC553.A88 O46 2010 (Mapit)
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Title The age of autism : mercury, medicine, and a man-made epidemic / Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill.
Author Olmsted, Dan.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780312545628
0312545622
9780312547097 (paperback)
0312547099 (paperback)
Publication Details New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, c2010.
Language English
Description xi, 430 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number RC553.A88 O46 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 616.85/882071
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Blaxill, Mark, 1958-
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Foreword / David Kirby
Introduction: the seed
pt. One: The roots. Ch. 1. The age of syphilis
ch. 2. The age of hysteria
ch. 3. The age of acrodynia
ch. 4. Pollution
ch. 5. Targeted toxins
pt. Two: The rise. Ch. 6. Germination
ch. 7. The wrong branches
ch. 8. Growing like a weed
ch. 9. Fruit of the poisoned tree
ch. 10. Digging up the roots
Epilogue: the nightmare and the dream
Appendix A: Notes on the Tuskegee Studies
Appendix B: Selected papers and patents of the Plant Pathology Network.

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