Substance abuse and parenthood: Biological mechanisms-bioethical challenges

Women and Health

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1-24

  Pollard, Irina ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bioethics; Bioscience ethics; Birth defects; Pre conceptional period; Pregnancy; Reproductive hazards; Substance abuse; Teratology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DISABILITY; ETHICS; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; INFERTILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL WELFARE; MODEL; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN; PARENTHOOD; PATHOGENESIS; POVERTY; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TERATOLOGY;

EID: 0033635735     PISSN: 03630242     EISSN: 15410331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J013v30n03_01     Document Type: Article

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