Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Book Detail
Edition: 1
Release: 2006-09-30
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0674022378
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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A generation has passed since a physician first noticed that women who drank heavily while pregnant gave birth to underweight infants with disturbing tell-tale characteristics. Women whose own mothers enjoyed martinis while pregnant now lost sleep over a bowl of rum raisin ice cream. In Message in a Bottle, Janet Golden charts the course of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) through the courts, media, medical establishment, and public imagination. Long considered harmless during pregnancy (doctors even administered it intravenously during labor), alcohol, when consumed by pregnant women, increasingly appeared to be a potent teratogen and a pressing public health concern. Some clinicians recommended that women simply moderate alcohol consumption; others, however, claimed that there was no demonstrably safe level for a developing fetus, and called for complete abstinence. Even as the diagnosis gained acceptance and labels appeared on alcoholic beverages warning pregnant women of the danger, Download Message in a Bottle for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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