Table of Contents

"Preface; Discovering 'The Elephant Man'; Sir Frederick Treves, Surgeon; Downtown London, 1884;The Elephant Man, As Told by Sir Frederick Treves; Building on Treves' Story; Life in the London Hospital; The Vindication of Mary Jane Merrick; The Supreme Importance of a Mothers Love; Genes, Environment & Personality Development; Lessons of The Elephant Man; Afterword: On Our Reactions to the Disabled; Appendix: The Autobiography of Joseph Carey Merrick; Mrs. Kendal's Account of Joseph Merrick; Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Multiple Neurofibromatosis; The Nature of The Elephant Man's Disorder; Death of The Elephant Man; References; About the Author."

Reviews

The truth of the Elephant Man Upon seeing the movie "The Elephant Man" I was immediately possessed by an overwhelming urge to know how much of the movie was true, and how much was false. I was pleasantly surprised to find that this book answered every question I had, and more. Ashley Montagu has researched the subject with such a tenacity that it truly boggles my mind that he was able to collect all this information. To this day, I cannot fathom Joseph Merrick; by all accounts, after everything that happened to him, he should have been bitter and spiteful to the core, yet he was instead a shining example of courage, dignity, and the human spirit. This book illuminates that undying spirit in a way that is hard to describe. I would recommend this book to everybody. -Reviewed in the U.S. on April 6, 2002, By Amazon customer helpdeskdan

Beauty inside the beast A tragic and heroic documentary of a persons ability to prevail with grace over the most horrendous birth defect imaginable. A great read, I learned a lot. -Reviewed in the U.S. on Sept. 23, 2016, By Amazon customer Ediucci