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Fetal Alcohol Abuse Syndrome (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
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Fetal Alcohol Abuse Syndrome (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
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My initial purpose in writing this book was to offer readers an
update of my book Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Effects
(Plenum, 1984), which con tained a broad overview of the history
(actually the absence of any history) ofthe awareness of alcohol's
teratogenic potential; a review of alcohol's pharmacology,
especially with respect to pregnancy; a survey of the physical and
behavioral effects of prenatal alcohol exposure; and an overview of
the mechanisms sus pected of being responsible for those effects. I
have omitted most of the previously examined historical and
pharmacologi cal information because not much of what was
previously discussed needed revision. On the other hand, because
much more has been learned about the consequences of prenatal
alcohol exposure and its potential mechanisms of action, I have
considerably expanded my discussion of these topics. In doing so, I
have attempted to include as much new material as possible without
(I hope) being overly pedantic and thereby losing the proverbial
forest for the trees. No book is ever entirely neutral in the
topics it discusses, the issues it raises, or in its conclusions.
In sifting through hundreds and oftentimes thousands of articles,
writers have to choose which facts to emphasize and which to
ignore. Every idea cannot be chronicled and every article cannot
(and should not) be cited. In going about the business of picking
and choosing, however, a writer has an obligation to present the
arguments for and against a particular conclusion."
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