Grinker, Roy Richard
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2000
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Summary: "A compassionate and eye-opening examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma. For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody's Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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Contents: Introduction: bringing autism into focus -- One in three hundred -- Theme and variation: the "discovery" of autism -- Stigma, shame, and secrets -- Blaming mothers -- The rise of diagnosis -- Autism by the book -- Autism by the numbers -- Isabel in Monet's garden -- Igloos in India -- Beaking the rules -- Half past winter in South Korea -- Becoming visible -- Getting in tune -- Beyond the curve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2007