JOAN ABLON is Professor Emerita, Medical Anthropology Program, Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of Little People in America (Praeger, 1984) and Living with Difference (Praeger, 1988).

• IntroductionPsychosocial Issues in Living with NF1Diagnosis and Response of Families of First Generation Adults to Their ConditionIntergenerational SharingThe School Years--The Staging Ground for StigmaGetting and Keeping a JobThe Search for IntimacyMarriage and ChildbearingGender ResponseLiving with UncertaintyThe Specter of "The Elephant Man"StigmaNF Support GroupsMedical ExperiencesImpactConclusionAppendixesReferencesIndex

JOAN ABLON is Professor Emerita, Medical Anthropology Program, Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of Little People in America (Praeger, 1984) and Living with Difference (Praeger, 1988).

• IntroductionPsychosocial Issues in Living with NF1Diagnosis and Response of Families of First Generation Adults to Their ConditionIntergenerational SharingThe School Years--The Staging Ground for StigmaGetting and Keeping a JobThe Search for IntimacyMarriage and ChildbearingGender ResponseLiving with UncertaintyThe Specter of "The Elephant Man"StigmaNF Support GroupsMedical ExperiencesImpactConclusionAppendixesReferencesIndex

JOAN ABLON is Professor Emerita, Medical Anthropology Program, Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of Little People in America (Praeger, 1984) and Living with Difference (Praeger, 1988).

• IntroductionPsychosocial Issues in Living with NF1Diagnosis and Response of Families of First Generation Adults to Their ConditionIntergenerational SharingThe School Years--The Staging Ground for StigmaGetting and Keeping a JobThe Search for IntimacyMarriage and ChildbearingGender ResponseLiving with UncertaintyThe Specter of "The Elephant Man"StigmaNF Support GroupsMedical ExperiencesImpactConclusionAppendixesReferencesIndex