书目名称 | Issues and Reviews in Teratology | 副标题 | Volume 1 | 编辑 | Harold Kalter | 视频video | | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | Teratology is at once among the oldest and youngest of human preoccupations. Coincident with man‘s first observations of the stars were his recordings of human and animal deformities. But, such aberrancies must have occurred even earlier, for although it is one of those things-like evolution-that cannot be proven, it is nevertheless indisputable that dysmorphogenesis must have occurred from the time complex forms of life first arose on our planet; and that from the beginnings of human awareness our species was conscious of such happenings. From the earliest recordings of this fascination with the form and meaning of abnormality a tortuous but continuous line extends to modern struggles to understand and control these manifestations. And now, after long occupying an honorable but peripheral place in the halls of philosophical and scientific pursuits, teratology has quite suddenly come to take a prominent position at the hub of a complex crossroads of human concerns. This shift in its fortune has taken several forms. Fetal maldevelopment has become the concern of environmentalists, activists of various persuasions, indus trial organizations, government agencies, ethicists, parents-i | 出版日期 | Book 1983 | 关键词 | anatomy; chromosome; cytogenetics; embryology; environment; epidemiology; genes; genetics; morphogenesis; nat | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7311-1 | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4615-7313-5 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4615-7311-1 | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media New York 1983 |
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