How attitudes to autism have radically changed - podcast
by Nicola Davis, Ian Sample and James Randerson from on (#QN4K)
Technology writer Steve Silberman's new book charts the evolution of autism
How have our attitudes to autism changed since the disorder's first definition in 1943?
Steve Silberman is an American journalist who writes about technology for Wired magazine and the New Yorker. His new book Neurotribes is a thorough study of how autism has evolved. Silberman's new 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, rather than eradicated.
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