Maintaining the Orthodoxy and Silencing Dissent / Chris Brook -- The History of SBS / Randy Papetti -- The neuropathology of SBS or retinodural haemorrhage of infancy / Waney Squier, Tommie Olofsson -- The importance of the correlation between radiology and pathology in SBS / Waney Squier, Julie Mack -- SBS, AHT -- or just a type of hydrocephalus? / Knut Wester, Johan Wikstrom -- SBS or benign external hydrocephalus -- how is AHT depicted in the scientific literature? / Knut Wester, Johan Wikstrom, Jose -- Are some cases of sudden infant death syndrome incorrectly diagnosed as SBS? / Marta Cohen -- AHT : the importance of predisposing factors / Bernard Echenne -- How I Became a SBS Skeptic Paediatrician / Marvin Miller -- The Swedish systematic literature review on suspected traumatic shaking (SBS) and its aftermath / Niels Lynoe, Anders Eriksson -- Interrogation and the Infanticide Suspect : Mechanisms of Vulnerability to False Confession / Deborah Davis, Richard Leo -- Can confession substitute for science in SBS/AHT? / Keith Findley -- Cognitive Bias in Medicolegal Judgments / Jeff Kukucka, Keith Findley -- Biomechanical forensic analysis of shaking and short fall head injury mechanisms in infants and young children / Kirk Thibault -- When lack of information leads to apparent paradoxes and wrong conclusions : analysis of a seminal article on short falls / Leila Schneps -- Epidemiology of findings claimed to be highly specific for SBS/AHT, a prerequisite to improve diagnosis of child abuse / Ulf Hogberg -- SBS : Exploring concerns about the 'triad' diagnosis and its statistical validation using a causal Bayesian Network / Norman Fenton, Scott McLachlan -- Mandatory reporting of child maltreatment / Felicity Goodyear-Smith -- SBS/AHT Opinion Evidence in U.S. Courts / Kathleen Pakes -- Undoing Wrongful Convictions : Exonerating the Innocent in SBS/AHT Cases / Keith Findley -- Ptolemy rather than Copernicus -- The State of SBS In the British Legal System / Clive Stafford Smith -- SBS in France / Cyrille Rossant, Gregoire Etrillard -- Sweden and SBS/AHT / Ulf Hogberg, Goran Hogberg -- SBS/AHT in Japan / Kana Sasakura -- SBS in Australia / Chris Brook, Michael Nott -- SBS around the world.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher. Since the early 2000s, a growing body of scientific studies in neuropathology, neurology, neurosurgery, biomechanics, statistics, criminology and psychology has cast doubt on the forensic reliability of medical determinations of Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS), more recently termed Abusive Head Trauma (AHT). Studies have increasingly documented that accidental short falls and a wide range of medical conditions can cause the same symptoms associated with this syndrome. Nevertheless, inaccurate diagnoses, unrealistic expression of confidence, and wrongful convictions continue to this day. Bringing together contributions from an expert panel of 32 professionals across 8 countries in 16 different specialties, this landmark book tackles the highly controversial topic of SBS, which lies at the intersection of medicine, science, and law. With comprehensive coverage across multiple disciplines, it explains the scientific evidence challenging SBS and advances efforts to evaluate how deaths and serious brain injuries in infants should be analyzed and investigated--back cover.
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