Infanticide
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Amy L. Masciola
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Cath Quinn
Child Murderers
Conviction Rates
Coroner's Court
criminal law history
Dana Rabin
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expert testimony in child murder trials
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forensic psychiatry
gender and crime studies
Hilary Marland
historical case analysis
Infanticidal Mother
Infanticidal Women
Infanticide Acts
Infanticide Cases
Infanticide Trials
Insanity Defence
Insanity Plea
J. R. Dickinson
J.A. Sharpe
Johanna Geyer-Kordesch
Jonathan Andrews
Julie Wheelwright
legal responses to child death
Luc Racaut
Margaret L. Arnot
Married Women
Patricia Van Der Spuy
Puerperal Insanity
Puerperal Mania
Secretary Of State
Settler Women
social history of medicine
Subaltern Women
Tony Ward
Unassisted Delivery
Wet Nurses
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780754603184
- Weight: 730g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 04 Apr 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The history of infanticide from the 16th through to the late 20th century is the subject of this volume. Collectively, the contributions explore how the concealment of pregnancy, birth and death, particularly by unmarried women, became a central preoccupation of witnesses, doctors, courts and legislatures concerned with suspicious infant deaths. While the emphasis is upon Britain, original and stimulating accounts of infanticide accusations and trials in France, Germany, and South Africa provide compelling comparative analyses. Presenting a series of case studies, successive chapters expose striking continuities, across both time and space, in the social history of infanticide. Clearly written, focusing on a range of original cases and documents, and addressing critical historiographical questions, Infanticide will be invaluable to historians and students researching the social history of medicine, law, crime, and gender. In addition, it will appeal to lawyers, doctors, and others interested in understanding the historical roots of modern debates about infanticide.
Mark Jackson, University of Exeter, UK Contributors: Mark Jackson, Luc Racaut, J.R. Dickinson, J.A. Sharpe, Amy L. Masciola, Dana Rabin, Johanna Geyer-Kordesch, Patricia van der Spuy, Margaret L. Arnot, Hilary Marland, Cath Quinn, Jonathan Andrews, Tony Ward, Julie Wheelwright.
