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Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Part I. Introduction to Risk and Children’s Health
5. 1. Are Mothers Hazardous to Their Children’s Health? 3
6. 2. The Social, Psychological, and Legal Construction of Risk 24
7. 3. How Healthy Are America’s Children? 56
8. Part II. Mothers as Vectors of Risk
9. 4. Conceptions of Risk: 71
10. 5. Drug Use by Pregnant Women 109
11. 6. Caught in the Crossfire 155
12. 7. The “Good Mother” and Crimes of Omission 178
13. Part III. Environmental Hazards to Children
14. 8. Childhood Lead Poisoning and Other People’s Children 207
15. 9. The Vaccination Paradox 243
16. Part IV. A New Framework for Risk Assessment and Risk Reduction
17. 10. Moving beyond Blame 279
18. Appendix. Criminal Prosecutions of Parents Based on a Failure to Act 297
19. Notes 301
20. Index 403
21. About the Author 423