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By Roy Richard Grinker. 340 pp. New York, Basic Books, 2007. $26.95. ISBN 978-0-465-02763-7.

Perhaps nowhere in medicine is it more apparent than in the world of psychiatry that illness cannot exist outside culture. How a person perceives a symptom and how a society defines a disorder determine whether a physician ever makes a diagnosis and attempts a treatment.

It is this premise that Roy Richard Grinker, an anthropologist and the father of an autistic child, uses as a starting point to illuminate the history and current state of autism, a genetic and developmental disorder, in Unstrange Minds. He leads the reader across cultures and continents but observes that even when the diagnostic . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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