Murder, Medicine and Motherhood.

By:

Cunliffe, Emma

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford : Hart, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (247 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781847316608
1847316603
9781849461573
1849461570
1283340240
9781283340243
9781472565556
147256555X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Murder, Medicine and Motherhood.DDC classification:

345.05

LOC classification:

HV6541.A8 C86 2011

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Contents:

Cunliffe_EB661 Murder, Medicine and Motherhood 9781847316608; Cunliffe_EB661 Murder, Medicine and Motherhood 9781847316608.pdf; Prelims; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Table of Cases; Table of Legislation; List of Illustrations; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. The Folbigg Case; Chapter 3. Unexplained Infant Death: A Shifting Theory of Maternal Culpability; Chapter 4. Distinguishing Homicide from SIDS; Chapter 5. The Scientific Case against Folbigg; Chapter 6. A Mother Who Would Kill Her Children; Chapter 7. Reading Guilt: Kathleen Folbigg's Diaries; Chapter 8. Media Monster.

Chapter 9. ConclusionBibliography; Appendix. Chronology of Folbigg Children's Lives and Deaths; Index.

Summary: Since the early 1990s, unexplained infant death has been reformulated as a criminal justice problem within many western societies. This shift has produced wrongful convictions in more than one jurisdiction. This book uses a detailed case study of the murder trial and appeals of Kathleen Folbigg to examine the pragmatics of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. It explores how legal process, medical knowledge and expectations of motherhood work together when a mother is charged with killing infants who have died in mysterious circumstances. The author argues that Folbigg, who remains in prison, was.

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Chapter 9. ConclusionBibliography; Appendix. Chronology of Folbigg Children's Lives and Deaths; Index.

Since the early 1990s, unexplained infant death has been reformulated as a criminal justice problem within many western societies. This shift has produced wrongful convictions in more than one jurisdiction. This book uses a detailed case study of the murder trial and appeals of Kathleen Folbigg to examine the pragmatics of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. It explores how legal process, medical knowledge and expectations of motherhood work together when a mother is charged with killing infants who have died in mysterious circumstances. The author argues that Folbigg, who remains in prison, was.