NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism & the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman - Non Fiction - Paperback

Details. Condition: New. Format: Paperback. ISBN: 9781760113643. Publisher: Allen & Unwin. Overview. NeuroTribes is Steve Silberman's landmark work of investigative journalism, tracing the hidden history of autism from its earliest clinical descriptions to today's neurodiversity movement. Winner of the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize, this brand-new paperback edition carries a foreword by the late neurologist Oliver Sacks. A Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller, it remains one of the most acclaimed accounts of autism ever published, essential reading for anyone wanting to understand how society's view of neurological difference has evolved.. About the Book. Building on his groundbreaking Wired feature "The Geek Syndrome," Silberman spent years researching the scientists, families, and autistic people themselves whose stories shaped our understanding of autism. He uncovers how early clinicians such as Hans Asperger and Leo Kanner shaped, and sometimes obscured, the diagnostic criteria still used today, and why the number of diagnoses has risen so dramatically in recent decades. Rather than portraying autism purely as a deficit, Silberman frames it as a naturally occurring form of human cognitive variation with a long, largely unrecorded history. Weaving together rigorous historical research with intimate personal narratives, NeuroTribes gives voice to autistic individuals and their families across generations, while e...