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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Miller, Laurie C. Handbook of international adoption medicine. New York : Oxford University Press, 2005 (OCoLC)649991456 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Laurie C Miller |
| ISBN: | 0195176812 9780195176810 0195145305 9780195145304 |
| OCLC Number: | 53840452 |
| Description: | xv, 448 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. International adoption medicine; PART I: BEFORE THE ADOPTION; 2. The effects of institutionalization on children; 3. Special regional consideration; 4. Pre-adoption counselling and evaluating the referral; PART II: PRENATAL EXPOSURES; 5. Fetal alcohol syndrome; 6. Prenatal drug exposure; 7. Prenatal exposure to maternal smoking; 8. Effects of stress in early life; PART III: TRAVEL AND TRANSITION; 9. Travel and transition to the adoptive family; PART IV: GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; 10. Malnutrition and undernutrition; 11. Micronutrient deficiencies; 12. Microcephaly and early brain injury; 13. Developmental delay; PART V: INFECTIOUS DISEASES; 14. Tuberculosis; 15. Hepatitis B; 16. Hepatitis C; 17. Intestinal parasites and other enteric infections; 18. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV); 19. Syphilis; 20. Heliobacter Pylori; 21. Immunization and vaccine-preventable diseases; 22. Unusual and other infectious diseases; PART VI: OTHER MEDICAL CONDITIONS; 23. Inherited disorders of erythrocytes; 24. Lead and other environmental toxins; 25. Rickets; 26. Uncertain age; 27. Precocious puberty; 28. Lactose intolerance; PART VII: NEUROCOGNITIVE AND BEHAVIOURAL ISSUES; 29. Attachment; 30. Behavioural and mental disorders; 31. Language; 32. School issues; 33. Dysfunction of sensory integration; 34. Culture and identity; 35. After adoption: unspoken problems; 26. Resources |
| Responsibility: | Laurie C. Miller. |
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