No Hands To Hold and No Legs To Dance On: A Thalidomide Survivor's Story

by Louise Medus and Gill Swain

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Loving and living - a Thalidomide survivor's story. While the battle for the compensation of Thalidomide victims was raging in the 1970s, former Labour MP Jack Ashley asked in a parliamentary debate how Louise, then 11 years old, could look forward to “laughing and loving with no hand to hold and no legs to dance on”. This is a survivor’s story, a triumph of the human spirit over adversity.

Louise was born Louise Mason, a victim of the devastating drug Thalidomide. Born without arms and legs, she is the daughter of David Mason, who single-handedly held out against the...

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  • ISBN13 9781909520448
  • Publish Date 10 January 2013 (first published 26 January 2009)
  • Publish Status Withdrawn
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Headline Publishing Group
  • Imprint Accent Press Ltd
  • Format eBook (EPUB)
  • Pages 224
  • Language English