Down's Syndrome: The History of a Disability

by David Wright

Book Overview

For 150 years, Down's Syndrome has constituted the archetypal mental disability, easily recognisable by distinct facial anomalies and physical stigmata. In a narrow medical sense, Down's syndrome is a common disorder caused by the presence of all or part of an extra 21st chromosome. It is named after John Langdon Down, the British asylum medical superintendent who described the syndrome as Mongolism in a series of lectures in 1866. In 1959, the disorder...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019956793X
• ISBN13: 9780199567935
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 7.8"