Major Mental Handicap: methods and costs of prevention -- Contents -- Chairman's introduction -- Main causes of major mental handicap: prevalence and epidemiology -- Discussion -- Aetiology of severe handicapping conditions in early childhood -- Discussion -- Severe mental retardation in Swedish children born 1959-1970: epidemiological panorama and causative factors -- Discussion -- ABCs of perinatal medicine -- Discussion -- Neonatal intensive care and the prevention of major handicap -- Discussion -- A method for neurological evaluation within the first year of life: experience with full-term newborn infants with birth injury -- Discussion -- General Discussion -- Present status of the infant of very low birth weight treated in a referral neonatal intensive care unit in 1974 -- Discussion -- Outcome for infants at high risk of major handicap -- Discussion -- Application of cost-benefit analysis to programmes for the prevention of mental handicap -- Discussion -- Perinatality: French cost-benefit studies and decisions on handicap and prevention -- Discussion -- Final discussion -- Priorities for obstetric intervention -- Group with IQs of 50-70 -- Research priorities -- UK priorities -- Ethics -- Index of contributors -- Subject index.