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Amniocentesis: A Means of Pre-Natal Diagnosis of Conditions Associated with Severe Mental Subnormality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Valerie A. Cowie
Valerie A. Cowie*
Affiliation:
Queen Mary's Hospital for Children, Carshalton, Surrey
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In the past two decades revolutionary scientific advances and social developments have changed our attitude to the management of conditions associated with severe mental subnormality. Therapeutic achievement has admittedly been on a limited scale, and in terms of medical treatment in the conventional medical sense is likely to remain so. Very great hope lies, however, in the use of our newly-gained knowledge and expertise for prevention rather than cure.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 118 , Issue 542 , January 1971 , pp. 83 - 86
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1971 

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