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Downs : the history of a disability / David Wright.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wright, David, 1965-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Down Syndrome--history.
- Disabled Persons--rehabilitation.
- History, 19th Century.
- History, 20th Century.
- History, 21st Century.
- Public Policy.
- Quality of Life.
- Social Support.
- Down syndrome.
- Down syndrome--History.
- Down syndrome--Patients--Care--History.
- Down syndrome--Patients--Care.
- History.
- Medical Subjects:
- Down Syndrome--history.
- Disabled Persons--rehabilitation.
- History, 19th Century.
- History, 20th Century.
- History, 21st Century.
- Public Policy.
- Quality of Life.
- Social Support.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 239 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- Attitudes to Down's syndrome have changed beyond measure in recent years, and over the centuries. David Wright traces the fascinating story, beginning in medieval Europe, when sufferers were dismissed as 'idiots', through to the pioneering work of the Victorian physician John Langdon-Down 1 50 years ago, and most important of all he discovery in 1959 that its cause was genetic. This is a dramatic story of how lives have been transformed by social change and scientific discovery. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 The Philosopher's Idiot 16
- 2 Mongols in our Midst 48
- 3 The Simian Crease 81
- 4 Trisomie vingt-et-un 115
- 5 Into the Mainstream 146.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographic references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199567935
- 019956793X
- OCLC:
- 747833878
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