Commentary: Sullivan on the offspring of the female criminal alcoholic

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 289-292

  Gray, Ron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLISM; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; BIRTH DEFECT; DEATH; DEGENERATION; DISABILITY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; EPIGENETICS; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; FETUS RISK; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NEUROSIS; NOTE; OFFENDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISON; PROGENY; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SOCIETY; STILLBIRTH; SYPHILIS; TOXICITY; TUBERCULOSIS;

ALCOHOLISM; CRIMINALS; ENGLAND; EUGENICS; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 79953699960     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyr007     Document Type: Note

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