Technology writer Steve Silberman's modern book charts the evolution of autismHow have our attitudes to autism changed since the disorder's first definition in 1943?Steve Silberman is an American journalist who writes approximately technology for Wired magazine and the modern Yorker. His modern book Neurotribes is a thorough study of how autism has evolved. Silberman's modern book charts the evolution of autism,from its origins in the shadows of the second world war, up to the current campaign to reframe autism as something to be accepted and accommodated, and rather than eradicated.
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Source: theguardian.com