Second edition. Edited by David K. Stevenson and Philip Sunshine. 665 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1997. $175. ISBN 0-29-262640-X.
In the majority of children with cerebral palsy, mental retardation,and other chronic neurodevelopmental disorders, no specificcause can be identified. The inability of physicians to provideinformation about the cause of a child's disability is oftena major source of parental frustration and distress. In theirsearch for plausible explanations for an adverse outcome ofneurologic development, both physicians and parents often focuson real or perceived difficulties during labor and delivery.In the absence of alternative factors to account for a child'sneurologic problems, parental recollections of, for example,intrapartum irregularities of the fetal heart rate or of . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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