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  The Politics of Down Syndrome (Paperback) By (author) Kieron Smith

  Book rating: 04

  

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  Short Description for The Politics of Down SyndromeThe Politics of Down Syndrome is a call for people to think again about what it means to be inclusive, why we're hung up on the idea of intelligence and how an inclusive society is a better society.
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  • Publisher: Zero Books
  • Published: 16 October 2011
  • Format: Paperback 89 pages
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  • Categories: Disability: Social Aspects | Illness & Addiction: Social Aspects | Teaching Of Students With Specific Learning Difficulties / Needs | Medical Ethics & Professional Conduct | Family & Relationships
  • ISBN 13: 9781846946134 ISBN 10: 1846946131
  • Sales rank: 18,755

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Reviews for The Politics of Down Syndrome

• Worthy WritingBook rating: 4

  Kieron has bravely and eloquently taken on a subject that most people never even think about until it affects them.
  
  It is this ignorance that has spawned the most upsetting and distressing discrimination against people with Down's Syndrome.
  
  Maybe things are a bit better than they were a while ago, but there is still a long road to travel before we can say we're a fully inclusive society.
  
  I personally think it's 'medicine' that needs to change, rather than politics having had years of dealing with doctors for my youngest sibling who is, firstly a person, not a 'sufferer' of a 'syndrome'.
  
  His book describes how we as a society have created a terrible assumption that Down's = suffering, expense, low-life expectancy, early death, unemployment etc etc and we routinely 'screen' expectant mothers sending a 'very strong signal from the very start, principally that Down syndrome is such a serious condition that a national screening program is necessary; which is the case in the UK and of many other Western countries.'
  
  A person with Down's syndrome is a person, not an expense on society's budget.
  
  I applaud Kieron's worthy writing. by Miss Mary English

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