Asperger's Syndrome is a growing phenomenon or at least a growing fashion in psychology. Annual diagnoses of the condition have increased 300 percent over the last 10 years. This books seeks to find out why.

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Autorentext
Lawrence Osborne has written widely about medical issues for The New York Times Magazine and Slate, and is the author of the travelogue Paris Dreambook and The Poisoned Embrace, a history of attitudes toward sex.

Inhalt
Asperger and I.- Little Professors.- The Last Puritan.- Rain Men.- Diagnosing Jefferson.- Autibiographies.- The Poetics of Medicine.