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Author: Janet Golden
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0674022378
Category: Medical

Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

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. Download Message in a Bottle medical books for free.
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 consumpti Get Message in a Bottle our bestseller medical books.

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