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Autism: Current Theories and Evidence
(Current Clinical Neurology.) Edited by Andrew W. Zimmerman. 474 pp., illustrated. Totowa, NJ, Humana Press, 2008. $139. ISBN 978-1-60327-488-3 (cloth); 978-1-60327-489-0 (e-book).

The Ethics of Autism: Among Them, but Not of Them
(Bioethics and the Humanities.) By Deborah R. Barnbaum. 233 pp., illustrated. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2008. $55 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). ISBN 978-0-253-35213-2 (cloth); 978-0-253-22013-4 (paper).

The mystery and complexity of autism lead many to use metaphor in their attempts to describe it. Bear with me as I do the same. These two books lead the reader into the realm of autism from very different vantage points, a realm I liken to an archipelago. The archipelago of autism is a group of islands that exist roughly in the same vicinity in the sea of human existence. Autism: Current Theories and Evidence, edited by Andrew Zimmerman, serves as an atlas or geophysical study of the archipelago of autism. Its purpose is to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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