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Shaken Baby Syndrome - Investigating the Abusive Head Trauma Controversy

English · Hardback

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"Unreliable medical determinations of shaken baby syndrome are pervasive around the world and lead to many miscarriages of justice. This textbook is the first to offer a rigorous, evidence-based examination of the controversy for doctors, researchers, lawyers, child welfare workers, law enforcement, and affected families"--

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Preface Barry Scheck; Part I. Prolog: 1. Maintaining the orthodoxy and silencing dissent Chris Brook; 2. The history of SBS Randy Papetti; Part II. Medicine: 3. The neuropathology of SBS or retinodural haemorrhage of infancy Waney Squier and Tommie Olofsson; 4. The importance of the correlation between radiology and pathology in SBS Waney Squier and Julie Mack; 5. SBS, AHT - or just a type of hydrocephalus? Knut Wester and Johan Wikström; 6. SBS or benign external hydrocephalus - how is AHT depicted in the scientific literature? Knut Wester and Johan Wikström, Jose; 7. Are some cases of sudden infant death syndrome incorrectly diagnosed as SBS? Marta Cohen; 8. AHT: the importance of predisposing factors Bernard Echenne; 9. How I became a SBS skeptic paediatrician Marvin Miller; Part III. Science: 10. The Swedish systematic literature review on suspected traumatic shaking (SBS) and its aftermath Niels Lynoe and Anders Eriksson; 11. Interrogation and the infanticide suspect: mechanisms of vulnerability to false confession Deborah Davis and Richard Leo; 12. Can confession substitute for science in SBS/AHT? Keith Findley; 13. Cognitive bias in medicolegal judgments Jeff Kukucka and Keith Findley; 14. Biomechanical forensic analysis of shaking and short fall head injury mechanisms in infants and young children Kirk Thibault; 15. When lack of information leads to apparent paradoxes and wrong conclusions: analysis of a seminal article on short falls Leila Schneps; 16. Epidemiology of findings claimed to be highly specific for SBS/AHT, a prerequisite to improve diagnosis of child abuse Ulf Högberg; 17. SBS: exploring concerns about the 'triad' diagnosis and its statistical validation using a causal Bayesian network Norman Fenton and Scott McLachlan; Part IV. Law: 18. Mandatory reporting of child maltreatment Felicity Goodyear-Smith; 19. SBS/AHT opinion evidence in US Courts Kathleen Pakes; 20. Undoing wrongful convictions: exonerating the innocent in SBS/AHT cases Keith Findley; Part V. International: 21. Ptolemy rather than Copernicus - the state of SBS in the British legal system Clive Stafford Smith; 22. SBS in France Cyrille Rossant and Grégoire Etrillard; 23. Sweden and SBS/AHT Ulf Högberg and Goran Högberg; 24. SBS/AHT in Japan Kana Sasakura; 25. SBS in Australia Chris Brook and Michael Nott; 26. SBS around the world; Part VI. Postface: 27. Conclusion.

About the author

Keith A. Findley is Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin, and former president of the Innocence Network.Cyrille Rossant is a neuroscience researcher and software engineer at the International Brain Laboratory and University College London.Kana Sasakura is a professor of criminal procedure law at Konan University, Kobe. She is the co-director of the SBS Review Project Japan as well as the deputy director of the Innocence Project Japan.Leila Schneps is Professor of Mathematics working at Sorbonne University, Paris. She has published Math on Trial (Basic Books, 2013, with C. Colmez) about miscarriages of justice caused by mathematical errors.Waney Squier is a retired paediatric neuropathologist formerly at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK.Knut Wester is a neurosurgeon, and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Clinical Medicine at the University of Bergen, Norway.

Summary

Tackling a highly controversial subject at the intersection of medicine, science, and law, this landmark book presents evidence-based analyses from a multidisciplinary panel of 32 specialists across 8 countries to investigate the claim that certain intracranial findings can alone be used as proof of shaking and an intentional abusive act.

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Authors Keith A. (University of Wisconsin Findley
Assisted by Keith A. Findley (Editor), Keith A. (University of Wisconsin Findley (Editor), Cyrille Rossant (Editor), Cyrille (University College London) Rossant (Editor), Kana Sasakura (Editor), Kana (Konan University Sasakura (Editor), Leila Schneps (Editor), Leila (Sorbonne Universite Schneps (Editor), Waney Squier (Editor), Waney (John Radcliffe Hospital Squier (Editor), Squier Waney (Editor), Knut Wester (Editor), Knut (Universitetet i Bergen Wester (Editor), Wester Knut (Editor)
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.04.2023
 
EAN 9781009384766
ISBN 978-1-0-0938476-6
No. of pages 464
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine
Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education

MEDICAL / Ethics, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, MEDICAL / Pathology, Pathology, MEDICAL / Pediatrics, MEDICAL / Forensic Medicine, MEDICAL / Neurology, LAW / Medical Law & Legislation, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, LAW / Family Law / Children, Neurology & clinical neurophysiology, Neurosciences, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Ethical issues & debates, Child welfare, Forensic Medicine, Paediatric medicine, Medical & healthcare law, Child welfare and youth services, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Ethical issues and debates, Medical and healthcare law, Family law: children

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