Infants and Gin Mania in 18th-Century London
- Alvin E. Rodin, MD
Abstract
A study of Hogarth's engraving, Gin Lane, highlights the fact that alcoholic addiction in parents results not only in the fetal alcohol syndrome, but also in other types of infant abuse. Physical trauma, loss of parents, neglect, and malnutrition are all depicted. There is the strong implication that the causes of such infant abuse, and thus the prevention, lie largely in socioeconomic and cultural fields, rather than in that of medical scienc
(JAMA 1981;245:1237-1239)
Footnotes
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Presented in part at the annual meeting of the American Osier Society, Boston, April 29, 1980.
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Reprint requests to Wright State University School of Medicine, PO Box 927, Dayton, OH 45401 (Dr Rodin).
