ISBN: 0674022378

Description: 232 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:

• Originally published: 2005.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

• "We realized we were onto something" : naming FAS
• "Conceived in gin" : historical sightings of alcohol and pregnancy
• "A clinically observable abnormality" : framing FAS
• "Not quite like other children" : FAS, science, and medicine
• "According to the Surgeon General" : warning women against drinking
• "Tempest in a cocktail glass" : pregnancy policing and the media
• The Thorp case : Jim Beam on trial
• "An argument that goes back to the womb" : adoptions, courtrooms, and FAS today.

Control Number: 718414

Subjects:

• Alcoholism in pregnancy -- Complications.
• Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.