A Father Reflects on His Daughter's Dwarfism
-- and What It Means to Be Different
For
my parents,
the original Dan and Barbara Kennedy,
who died much too young.
They would have loved their grandchildren.
And their grandchildren would have loved them.
Table of Contents
Introduction to the Online Edition
Chapter One
An Unexpected Journey
Chapter Two
Life Saving
Chapter Three
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Chapter Four
The Valley of the Shadow of Death
Chapter Five
Chaos Theory
Chapter Six
A Different Kind of Disability
Chapter Seven
On Her Own Two Feet
Chapter Eight
Stereotypes, Stigma, and Identity
Chapter Nine
The Bone Machine
Chapter Ten
The Storm Before the Calm
Chapter Eleven
Of Drunks and Divas
Chapter Twelve
The New Eugenics
Chapter Thirteen
A Place of Her Own
Acknowledgments
Notes on Sources
the original Dan and Barbara Kennedy,
who died much too young.
They would have loved their grandchildren.
And their grandchildren would have loved them.
Table of Contents
Introduction to the Online Edition
Chapter One
An Unexpected Journey
Chapter Two
Life Saving
Chapter Three
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Chapter Four
The Valley of the Shadow of Death
Chapter Five
Chaos Theory
Chapter Six
A Different Kind of Disability
Chapter Seven
On Her Own Two Feet
Chapter Eight
Stereotypes, Stigma, and Identity
Chapter Nine
The Bone Machine
Chapter Ten
The Storm Before the Calm
Chapter Eleven
Of Drunks and Divas
Chapter Twelve
The New Eugenics
Chapter Thirteen
A Place of Her Own
Acknowledgments
Notes on Sources
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Little People: A Father Reflects on His Daughter's Dwarfism -- and What It Means to Be Different is copyright © 2003 and 2007 by Dan Kennedy.
