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Conceiving risk, bearing responsibility : fetal alcohol syndrome & the diagnosis of moral disorder / Elizabeth M. Armstrong

Catalog Data

Author:
Armstrong, Elizabeth M. 1967-  Search this
Physical description:
xiii, 277 p. : ill ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
2008
2008, c2003
Notes:
Johns Hopkins paperback edition, 2008 --verso
NMAHMED copy 39088013469556 has bookplate: Gift from the Office of the Secretary to Honor the Smithsonian Institution Libraries 40th Anniversary 2008.
Contents:
Conceiving risk -- The "question of alcohol and offspring" in the nineteenth century -- Diagnosing moral disorder -- Charting uncertainty through doctors' lenses -- Discordant depictions of risk -- Medical-moral authority and the redefinition of risk in the twentieth century -- Bearing responsibility
Topic:
Fetal alcohol syndrome--Social aspects  Search this
Fetal alcohol syndrome--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_903381