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Mother Warriors: A Nation of Parents Healing Autism Against All Odds Author(s) Jenny McCarthy Country US Language English Publisher Dutton Publication date September 2008 Media type Hardcover Pages 304 ISBN 978-0525950691 OCLC Number 223800488 Dewey Decimal 618.92/8588200922 22 LC Classification RJ506.A9 M4254 2008 Mother Warriors: A Nation of Parents Healing Autism Against All Odds is the fifth book published by New York Times bestselling author and playboy playmate Jenny McCarthy. Her previous book, Louder Than Words, reached #3 on the New York Times bestseller list, and has more than 200,000 hardcovers in print after 5 printings. Many of McCarthy's assertions within the book, such as that she cured her son's autism and the benefits of chelation are highly disputed within the medical and scientific community.
Summary
The book shares the personal stories of several families fighting autism. These stories focus on alternative autism therapies that they try to heal their children, as well as McCarthy's own reminiscing about her autistic child and her outspoken and contentious activism. The book includes the daughter of the founder of Autism Speaks[1], who claims to have changed her son's diet and improved his autism despite conspiratorial resistance from the organization, which, the book claims, until recently, rejected research into biomedical treatments; a mother who it is claimed "healed" her son of his autism while taking on breast cancer; a father whose son was officially undiagnosed after allegedly under-going treatment for a laundry list of debilitating autism symptoms and regressions; and a sixty-year-old woman who made attempts to fight to save her son (now thirty) in the 1980s, the book exclaims that she paved the way for the parents of today. The book also features a list of controversial autism resources and a directory of DAN! (Defeat Autism Now!) doctors who are sympathetic to the widely discredited theory that autism is caused by mercury in vaccines.[2].
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Developmental disorders: Pervasive developmental disorders and autism spectrum (F84, 299) Main Diagnoses Related conditions Controversies Diagnostic scales Gilliam Asperger's Disorder Scale · Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule · Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised · Autism Spectrum Quotient · Childhood Autism Rating ScaleLists Categories:- 2008 books
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