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Who Is the Guilty Party? Rights, Motherhood, and the Problem of Prenatal Drug Exposure

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Gomez Laura, Misconceiving Mothers: Legislators, Prosecutors, and the Politics of Prenatal Drug Exposure. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997. Pp. x+256. $59.95 cloth; $19.95 paper.
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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Karen D. Zivi
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Law & Society Review , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , 2000 , pp. 237 - 258
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Copyright © 2000 by the Law and Society Association

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The author wishes to thank Helena Silverstein, Jill Locke, and Laurie Naranch for their helpful and generous comments and suggestions.

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