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(The History of Disability.) Edited by Steven Noll and James W. Trent, Jr. 513 pp. New York, New York University Press, 2004. $24. ISBN 0-8147-8248-5.

This is a highly readable and well-edited historical anthology, a wide-ranging collection that deals with mental retardation over two centuries. The focus is on the views and actions of society. The book deserves perusal by anyone interested in mental retardation.

The editors consider the history of retardation in the context of general history. There are only two sections that deal with medicine: one concerns a history of the recognition of "Mongolism" by John Langdon Down, the racial detour that accompanied that recognition, and the eventual delineation of trisomy 21 as the cause; the other is a treatise on the pathology . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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