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Down's syndrome : the history of a disability /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wright, David, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, Ã2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiii, 239 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-221) and index.
ISBN:9780191573279
0191573272