New Literature on Fetal Alcohol Exposure and Effects: A Bibliography, 1983-1988

by Ernest L. Abel

Spontaneous abortion, a pattern of defects labeled fetal alcohol syndrome, and more subtle behavioral disturbances that occur in the absence of observable physical anomalies are some of the damaging effects of alcohol, now recognized as one of the leading known causes of birth defects in the western world. So grave are the apparent consequences of drinking alcohol during pregnancy that a new U.S. law requires warning labels to appear on all alcoholic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313273294
• ISBN13: 9780313273292
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"