Diagnosing moral disorder: The discovery and evolution of fetal alcohol syndrome

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2025-2042

  Armstrong, Elizabeth M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Fetal alcohol syndrome; Moral entrepreneurship

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ETIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; FETUS; HISTORY; HUMAN; MORALITY; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EUROPE; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MORALS; PREGNANCY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032422912     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(98)00308-6     Document Type: Article

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