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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674022378
• ISBN13: 9780674022379
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"