The shape of the eye
Subtitle: Down syndrome, family, and the stories we inherit
By: George Estreich ; afterword by Marcia Day Childress
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Medical humanities; Medical humanities
Publisher: Southern Methodist University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Dallas
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780870745676
Subjects: Family; Down syndrome; American Authors; Patients; Children with disabilities; Family relationships; Stay at home fathers; Parents of children with disabilities; Biography
Description: Writer George Estreich describes how raising a child with Down syndrome impacted everything else in his life, including his approach to writing and the way he now perceives other events in his own life and in the lives of his family members.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Arrival; title: A child first; title: Faultline; title: Border; title: This is eating; title: Echo; title: In the ICU; title: Medicine is communication; title: The mayor of Hidden Valley; title: At home; title: A complex sweetness; title: Writers and families; title: The labyrinth of normal; title: Tragedy and expectation; title: John Langdon Down; title: Engineering; title: Increments and fates; title: Tokyo, 1945.