Overview
Up-to-date and comprehensive description of the full range of behavioral phenomena observed during the final 15 weeks of gestation
Outstanding photographic material
Written by an author specialized in neurology, obstetrics, psychiatry, and infant-child development?
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Table of contents(12 chapters)
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Maternal/Fetal Medicine, Clinica Mangiagalli, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Alessandra Piontelli
About the author
After graduating in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Milan, Italy, Alessandra Piontelli qualified as a specialist in Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Parma. For more than a decade she worked at the Tavistock Clinic, London, where her responsibilities included teaching child neurology and psychiatry. In 1983 she was appointed Visiting Professor by the Department of Child Neurology and Psychiatry, University of Milan. Since 1990 she has worked at the First Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Milan, where she is involved in research into fetal and neonatal behavior and physiology and maternal behavior during pregnancy and the early post-partum period. In 2007 she was Visiting Professor at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa and, in 2011, Visiting Professor and Master in Pre-Natal and Peri-Natal Education at the University of Valencia, Spain. Her previous books include Backwards in Time: a Study in Infant Observation (Karnac Books, 1986), From Fetus to Child (Routledge, 1992), Twins: From Fetus to Child (Routledge, 2002), and Twins in the World (McMillan-Palgrave, 2008).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Development of Normal Fetal Movements
Book Subtitle: The Last 15 Weeks of Gestation
Authors: Alessandra Piontelli
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5373-1
Publisher: Springer Milano
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Italia 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-88-470-5372-4Published: 27 March 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-88-470-3932-2Published: 01 November 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-88-470-5373-1Published: 13 March 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 145
Number of Illustrations: 51 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Obstetrics/Perinatology/Midwifery, Neurology, Ultrasound, Pediatrics, Developmental Psychology, Behavioral Sciences