Women's Health Issues
Volume 15, Issue 2 , Pages 45-47 , March 2005

Drug and alcohol use during pregnancy: We need to protect, not punish, women

  • Elizabeth M. Armstrong, PhD, MPA

      Affiliations

    • Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: Dr. Elizabeth M. Armstrong, Office of Population Research, Wallace Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.
    • Elizabeth M. Armstrong, PhD, MPA, is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University. She is the author of Conceiving Risk, Bearing Responsibility: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and the Diagnosis of Moral Disorder (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003). Her research interests include pregnancy and childbirth, the management of risk in obstetrics/gynecology, and medical ethics.

Received 22 November 2004 ,Revised 6 December 2004 ,Accepted 7 December 2004.

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PII: S1049-3867(04)00134-3

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2004.12.003

Women's Health Issues
Volume 15, Issue 2 , Pages 45-47 , March 2005

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