This book documents Dr Arnold Gesell's studies of the embryo, the fetus, the neonate and the infant. First published in 1945, his observations on the growth of behavioral organization provide the bases for the maturation of motor behavior on which researchers and clinicians interested in infancy have built ever since. Superb photographs document behavior patterns, growth sequences, and fetal development from the zygote to the twenty-eight-week fetus.
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Cambridge University Press
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Höhe: 210 mm
Breite: 140 mm
Dicke: 27 mm
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978-0-521-41328-2 (9780521413282)
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Preface; 1. The search for beginnings; 2. Birth and age; 3. Zygote and embryo; 4. The genesis of behaviour; 5. The archaic motor system; 6. The growth of fetal behaviour; 7. Breathing behaviour; 8. Muscle tonus; 9. Electrotonic integration; 10. The fetal-infant; 11. The circumnatal infant; 12. The diurnal cycle of sleep and wakeness; 13. Species and individual; 14. The dynamic morphology of behaviour; 15. The hierarchical continuum; A photographic delineation of behaviour patterns and growth sequences; Appendices; Selected references; Index.
