Life As We Know It

When Jamie Brub was born with Down syndrome in 1991 he was immediately subject to themedical procedures insurance guidelines policies and representations that surround every child our societydesignates as disabled.In this wrenching yet ultimately inspiring book Jamie''s father literary scholar MichaelBrub describes not only the challenges of raising his son but the challenge of seeing him as a personrather than as a medical genetic or social problem.