Prologue: case study
1: The philosopher's idiot
2: Mongols in our midst
3: The Simian Crease
4: Trisomie vingt-et-un
5: Into the mainstream
Epilogue
Glossary
Notes
Further reading
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).
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*
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