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Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome


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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. in Message in a Bottle, Golden charts the course of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) through the courts, media, medical establishment, and public imagination.

Table of Contents:
Contents 1 “We Realized We Were onto Something” 2 “Conceived in Gin” 3 “A Clinically Observable Abnormality” 4 “Not Quite Like Other Children” 5 “According to the Surgeon General” 6 “Tempest in a Cocktail Glass” 7 The Thorp Case 8 “An Argument That Goes Back to the Womb” Notes Acknowledgments Index

About the Author :
Janet Golden is Professor of History, Rutgers University

Review :
Janet Golden's Message in a Bottle explores the fascinating history of the discovery of alcohol's damaging effects on fetuses. [Golden] does a solid job of delivering the science that backed the diagnosis, as well as the social context that shaped America's view of the condition...In the first chapter, Golden promises to provide a comprehensive look at the discovery of fetal alcohol syndrome, as well as the scientific, historical and social context that framed the debate over the condition. She delivers on all counts. Most interestingly, the book explains how laypeople and doctors alike were hesitant to accept that alcohol might be dangerous...The book details the chronology of changing medical knowledge and delivers its information remarkably well. -- January W. Payne Washington Post Book World 20050515 Golden's is a model study of the wide-ranging sociocultural consequences that can follow the clinical identification and description of a new syndrome. -- Robin Room The Lancet 20050611 Message in a Bottle by Janet Golden is the most comprehensive and easily read text on the history, politics, public health debate, legislation, psychosocial and family dynamics, and media discussion concerning fetal alcohol syndrome. This is a must-read for any professional involved in the study of alcohol abuse and neurodevelopmental outcomes of children, fetal medicine, pediatrics, social work, psychiatry, and other areas of mental health. -- Denis Viljoen Journal of Clinical Investigation This book is an almost essential read for students of developmental disabilities and diagnostic clinicians. For other readers it offers an engaging and informative insight into the effects of the discovery of new diagnoses on wider society. -- Raja A. S. Mukherjee British Medical Journal 20051008 Janet Golden's versatile cultural and medical history of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) in America is an enlightening addition to the literature on the social history of medicine, alcohol and drug problems, and women's health...This book would work well as a text in an undergraduate class on society and medicine or gender and health. At the same time, Golden's well-researched and documented study will enhance the knowledge of professionals in many fields, including history, gender studies, medicine, communications, and sociology. -- Pamela E. Pennock American Historical Review 20070401


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780674037717
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Harvard University Press
  • Edition: Digital original
  • No of Pages: 240
  • ISBN-10: 0674037715
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jul 2009
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome


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