Product Description: Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is a disease that only affects males, with an incidence of around 1 in 3500 new-born baby boys. Its relentless progress is charterized by loss of the ability to walk by around the age of 10 or 11, leading to a wheelchair life, and dealth from cardiac and respiratory problems usually around the late teens or early twenties...read more

Features several illustrations, ranging from Ancient Egypt and China to modern day contemporary artists, including: Susan Macfarlane, Toulouse-Lautrec, Hans Holbein the Younger, Leonardo da Vinci, Francesco Goya, Hieronymus Bosch, and others. This book appeals to those with an interest, professional or otherwise, in art, surgery and medicine.