Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery
ISBN-13:
9780300198911
ISBN-10:
0300198914
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
Rachel Adams
Publication date:
2014
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Format:
Paperback
272 pages
Category:
People with Disabilities
,
Specific Groups
,
Cultural & Regional
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Book details
ISBN-13:
9780300198911
ISBN-10:
0300198914
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
Rachel Adams
Publication date:
2014
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Format:
Paperback
272 pages
Category:
People with Disabilities
,
Specific Groups
,
Cultural & Regional
Summary
Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery (ISBN-13: 9780300198911 and ISBN-10: 0300198914), written by authors
Rachel Adams, was published by Yale University Press in 2014.
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Description
A mother’s deeply moving account of raising a son with Down syndrome in a world crowded with contradictory attitudes toward disabilities
Rachel Adams’s life had always gone according to plan. She had an adoring husband, a beautiful two-year-old son, a sunny Manhattan apartment, and a position as a tenured professor at Columbia University. Everything changed with the birth of her second child, Henry. Just minutes after he was born, doctors told her that Henry had Down syndrome, and she knew that her life would never be the same. In this honest, self-critical, and surprisingly funny book, Adams chronicles the first three years of Henry’s life and her own transformative experience of unexpectedly becoming the mother of a disabled child. A highly personal story of one family’s encounter with disability, Raising Henry is also an insightful exploration of today’s knotty terrain of social prejudice, disability policy, genetics, prenatal testing, medical training, and inclusive education. Adams untangles the contradictions of living in a society that is more enlightened and supportive of people with disabilities than ever before, yet is racing to perfect prenatal tests to prevent children like Henry from being born. Her book is gripping, beautifully written, and nearly impossible to put down. Once read, her family’s story is impossible to forget.
Rachel Adams’s life had always gone according to plan. She had an adoring husband, a beautiful two-year-old son, a sunny Manhattan apartment, and a position as a tenured professor at Columbia University. Everything changed with the birth of her second child, Henry. Just minutes after he was born, doctors told her that Henry had Down syndrome, and she knew that her life would never be the same. In this honest, self-critical, and surprisingly funny book, Adams chronicles the first three years of Henry’s life and her own transformative experience of unexpectedly becoming the mother of a disabled child. A highly personal story of one family’s encounter with disability, Raising Henry is also an insightful exploration of today’s knotty terrain of social prejudice, disability policy, genetics, prenatal testing, medical training, and inclusive education. Adams untangles the contradictions of living in a society that is more enlightened and supportive of people with disabilities than ever before, yet is racing to perfect prenatal tests to prevent children like Henry from being born. Her book is gripping, beautifully written, and nearly impossible to put down. Once read, her family’s story is impossible to forget.
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