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“Quality,
Reliability and Consistency”
Books
and Publications…
Rosie
overcame horrendous injuries to her physical being as a result of
her mother being prescribed Thalidomide during pregnancy. The drug
left Rosie with short arms and legs. Four fingers, two sprouting
from each shoulder and thirteen toes on legs which came to an abrupt
end above the knee.
Four
Fingers and Thirteen Toes charts Rosie‘s
birth into an Irish immigrant family, her early years filled with
long periods of hospitalisation and treatment; her education,
employment and relationships; and onto true fulfilment of a lifetime’s
desire to be independent.
This
remarkable story of a strong willed daughter, wife and mother, also
takes the reader through some interesting facts to show that
researchers at the drug’s
initial manufacturing base had links that stretched back to Nazi
Germany.
It
continues with the history and assessment of how the so-called “wonder
drug”
of the 1960s, thought to be banished after the tragedy unfolded, is
still being used in the treatment of various conditions and
illnesses. It examines why pharmaceutical companies are eager for it
to be re-licensed and includes Rosie‘s
honest perspective of the drug.
Four
Fingers and Thirteen Toes (ISBN 0954888324) by
Rosaleen
Moriarty-Simmonds
,
is available from all bookstores on a "to order" basis.
Alternatively
it is available through major on-line book retailers:
www.amazon.co.uk
rms-bookorders@dsl.pipex.co.uk
(priced
£11.95
plus £2.20
post and packaging.)
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For
those visitors interested in further research on Disability
Equality, Disability Discrimination and Inclusion, the following may
be of interest. RMS offers no recommendation or endorsement of the
products mentioned either expressly or by implication.
·
Defiant Birth – Woman who resist medical
Eugenics
By
Melinda
Tankard
Reist (ISBN: 1876756594)
·
Disabled People in Britain
and Discrimination
By
Colin
Barnes
(ISBN: 1850651272)
·
Disabling Barriers - Enabling Environments
By Swain, Finkelstien, French and
Oliver
(ISBN: 0761942653)
·
Exploring Disability
By
Barnes
,
Mercer and
Shakespeare
(ISBN: 9780745614786)
·
Mustn’t Grumble
By Lois
Keith
(ISBN: 9780704343443)
·
Altogether Better
By
Michelin
Mason
and
Richard
Rieser
(Available from Disability Equality in Education as part of a
resource pack on disability and inclusion in mainstream schools)
Michelin Mason
is currently writing a book entitled ‘Dear Parents’, which is a
book compiled from contributions from a number of disabled people,
and is designed to give advice to parents of disabled people.
Also,
‘Living Where The Nights Jive’ (working title) by
Maggie
Hampton
,
is a work in progress with contributions from and about disabled
people in the arts.
Rosie
has contributed to both of the above mentioned books.
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