Unstrange minds: Remapping the world of autism

With incendiary dialogue dominating the discussion of autism these days, an enlightened perspective is truly welcome. In Unstrange minds, Roy Richard Grinker, an anthropologist and parent of a child with autism, offers that perspective. Grinker tackles the most controversial issues — etiology and epidemic — and describes his experience raising a daughter with autism. Moreover, Grinker presses the reader to understand autism as shaped by culture and the historical framework through which it’s been viewed over the past 50 years. Reading Unstrange minds couldn’t be a more timely exercise.