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Quality of Life and Human Difference : Genetic Testing, Health Care, and Disability (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy) |
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Book Description
The role of quality assessments in social policy, especially health policy, and ethical and social issues raised by prenatal testing for disability are discussed in this analysis. A theme of the literature has been the role played by controversial assumptions about the quality of life of people with disabilities. This book turns the perspectives of disability scholars to issues that have largely been the province of health methodology, policy and philosophy, while ... >> |
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The Role of Environmental Hazards in Premature Birth: Workshop Summary |
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Book Info
Presents material from the third of a series of workshops sponsored by the Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine. Examines the problem of preterm birth as an environmental health problem. Softcover. DNLM: Labor, Premature--etiology--Congresses. ... >> |
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome : From Mechanism to Prevention |
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Book Description
Recognition of the relationship between alcohol abuse and adverse prenatal outcomes is reflected in the warning labels on every alcoholic beverage sold in the United States. Because alcohol abuse has serious consequences for both individuals and society as a whole, much research has been devoted to this problem. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome provides straightforward facts regarding the impact of alcohol consumption as it affects the development of the embryo and fetus. Sur... >> |
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