Message in a Bottle : : The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome / / Janet Golden.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2006] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1. “We Realized We Were onto Something”: Naming FAS
- 2. “Conceived in Gin”: Historical Sightings of Alcohol and Pregnancy
- 3. “A Clinically Observable Abnormality”: Framing FAS
- 4. “Not Quite Like Other Children”: FAS, Science, and Medicine
- 5. “According to the Surgeon General”: Warning Women against Drinking
- 6. “Tempest in a Cocktail Glass”: Pregnancy Policing and the Media
- 7. The Thorp Case: Jim Beam on Trial
- 8. “An Argument That Goes Back to the Womb”: Adoptions, Courtrooms, and FAS Today
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index