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Commentary: What might have been: Sullivan may have impacted modern prenatal alcohol research under different circumstances

Author(s) -

James Sanders

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyr003

Subject(s) - eugenics , heredity , fetal alcohol syndrome , medical research , psychiatry , medicine , political science , pregnancy , law , biology , pathology , genetics

often cited as a precursor to modern fetal alcohol re-search, was published at a time when alcoholism wasa topic of great interest in Europe and North America.Emerging theories of heredity, eugenics and temper-ance movements drove alcoholism research from 1860to 1910. In addition to an upsurge of medical litera-ture on alcoholism, a number of journals devoted tothe topic were formed (e.g. Journal of Inebriety).

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