Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

by Janet Golden

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674014855
• ISBN13: 9780674014855
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"