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Age of Autism: Mercury, Medicine, and a Man-Made Epidemic

by Dan Olmsted

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An investigative argument about mercury and neurological disorders

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An investigative argument about mercury and neurological disorders

Dan Olmsted’s book assembles a historical case linking autism with mercury exposure, placing that argument alongside discussions of syphilis, schizophrenia during the Industrial Revolution, and the families of children first identified as autistic in the 1930s. Framed as an inquiry into overlooked causes, it traces connections the authors believe run across several neurological and psychiatric conditions. The book’s central claim is explicitly controversial: that mercury exposure lies behind autism and a range of other disorders. Its emphasis is on building that thesis through historical comparison and medical history, rather than offering a general introduction to autism spectrum disorders.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in contested histories of medicine and public-health debates
  • Those seeking a historical argument about proposed environmental causes of autism
  • Readers interested in books connecting industrial history, psychiatric diagnoses, and medical research

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Autism and proposed causesMercury exposureMedical historyNeurological and psychiatric disordersPublic-health controversy

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Book overview

Much of the public discussion about autism has missed the point about the possible causes. To solve this question, two writers began digging into the history of other degenerative neurological disorders. Their research led them to discover incredible and previously unacknowledged links between a strain of syphilis which left suffers raving mad, the spike in incidence of schizophrenia during the Industrial Revolution, and the hidden commonalities between the parents of the first children diagnosed with autism in the 1930s.

The Age of Autism connects these dots to form a startling new thesis: behind each of these disorders - and many more - was exposure to mercury, the most toxic non-radioactive substance known to man.

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