Downs by David Wright
Down's Syndrome is a mental disability with very distinctive characteristics. David Wright looks at the care and treatment of Down's sufferers - described for much of history as 'idiots' - since Medieval Europe right up to the present day; considering the change in attitudes, care, and identification of the condition in the modern era.
David Wright has written a concise, yet thorough, overview of Down syndrome-from its changing history to the ethical quandary that our current knowledge provides us* Bulletin of the History of Medicine *
Dr David Wright received his D.Phil. in Modern History from the University of Oxford and then specialised, as a Wellcome Trust post-doctoral fellow, in the history of medicine. He is currently the Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, a joint position between the Department of History and the Department of Psychiatry. Dr Wright is the author and editor of six books on the history of mental health and psychiatry, including the first scholarly volume on the history of mental disability: (with Anne Digby, eds.) From Idiocy to Mental Deficiency: Historical Perspectives on People with Learning Disabilities (Routledge, 1996).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199567935 |
| ISBN 10 | 019956793X |
| Title | Downs |
| Author | David Wright |
| Series | Biographies Of Disease |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2011-08-25 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Prizes | Winner of Winner of the British Society for the History of Science Dingle Prize, 2013. |
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