| Summary: | A history of stories about people with Down syndrome, produced with scientific and methodological rigor, but written with the clarity and sensitivity that the theme requires: this work identifies culturally produced images and meanings that reveal how, based on biomedical discourse, society relates to people who bear the marks of Down syndrome, according to what is conventionally defined as 'normal' and 'pathological', as 'same' or 'same' and 'different' or 'other'. It also discusses how a genetically determined condition – chromosome 21 trisomy – becomes a structuring factor of identity. The research that led to the book analyzed a wide variety of cultural productions about Down syndrome aimed at the general public, including narratives of great evidence and repercussion in the media, such as the campaign that launched the slogan "being different is normal" and the award-winning documentary Do Luto à Luta, by director Evaldo Mocarzel, hundreds of books and blogs produced by parents of people with Down syndrome, in Brazil and abroad, and more than 150 journalistic reports published in newspapers and magazines
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