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The China-US Partnership to Prevent Spina Bifida: The Evolution of a Landmark Epidemiological Study
Deborah Kowal
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Hardcover. The epidemiological adventure story of preventing spina bifida with folic acid Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; MBNS; MJN; MJWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
In 1983 two doctors, one from each side of the world, decided to form a partnership, and so began a scientific adventure that would improve the odds that babies could be born healthy and whole. Neural tube defects that severely disabled or killed babies were epidemic in China (where the folk term was guai tai--roughly ""monster baby""--for an infant whose embryonic neural tube doesn't completely close and whose head and neck may be misshapen or spine may protrude) and a significant problem in the United States, leading teams of researchers from the United States and China to combine forces to ... Read more
In 1983 two doctors, one from each side of the world, decided to form a partnership, and so began a scientific adventure that would improve the odds that babies could be born healthy and whole. Neural tube defects that severely disabled or killed babies were epidemic in China (where the folk term was guai tai--roughly ""monster baby""--for an infant whose embryonic neural tube doesn't completely close and whose head and neck may be misshapen or spine may protrude) and a significant problem in the United States, leading teams of researchers from the United States and China to combine forces to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Tennessee, United States
ISBN
9780826520265
SKU
V9780826520265
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About Deborah Kowal
Deborah Kowal is executive editor and a coauthor of Contraceptive Technology, now in its twentieth edition with more than two million copies in print. As a medical writer specializing in women's reproductive health, she has consulted with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, and other organizations. For more than thirty years, she wrote the ... Read more
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