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Robin Marantz Henig is a medical journalist whose work appears in many national magazines, including The New York Times Magazine, Woman’s Day, Redbook, and Mademoiselle. Her first book, The Myth of Senility: Misconceptions About the Brain and Aging, won the 1982 Media Award of the American Psychological Association. Ms. Henig lives outside Washington, D.C., with her husband and family.
 
Anne B. Fletcher, M.D., is a neonatology specialist and chief of the Neonatology Unit at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

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Being Adopted
The Lifelong Search for Self
Written by David M. Brodzinsky, Marshall D. Schecter and Robin Marantz Henig

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 1, 1993
Price: $15.95

Like Passages, this groundbreaking book uses the poignant, powerful voices of adoptees and adoptive parents to explore the experience of adoption and its lifelong effects. A major work, filled with astute analysis and moving truths. Read more >

Dancing Matrix
How Science Confronts Emerging Viruses
Written by Robin Marantz Henig

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 1, 1994
Price: $19.00

Even as humanity reels beneath the assault of AIDS, epidemiologists are gearing themselves up for the plague's successor. It might be dengue fever, whose carrier, the Asian tiger mosquito, has recently appeared in the United States, or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which has been transmitted by contaminated human growth hormone. The next pandemic... Read more >

Your Premature Baby
The Complete Guide to Premie Care During That Crucial First Year
Written by Robin Marantz Henig

Format: Trade Paperback, 332 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: April 12, 1984
Price: $19.00

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