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Non-accidental Injury in Children

Memorandum of Evidence to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Violence in the Family

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

P. D. Scott
P. D. Scott*
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The Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AZ
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Abstract

Historically, in mediaeval times, the epoch of childhood was less clearly defined. If babyhood was survived, all but the most favoured children became little adults and a convenient source of labour. Instances of the barbarous treatment of children, infanticide, exploitation, starvation, flogging and mutilation, abound (Mause, 1976) and until comparatively recently these seemed to have caused little public reaction.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 131 , Issue 4 , October 1977 , pp. 366 - 380
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1977 

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