Infanticide: Psychosocial and Legal Perspectives on Mothers Who Kill

by Dr Margaret G Spinelli M.D. (Editor)

Written to help remedy today's dearth of up-to-date, research-based literature, this unique volume brings together a multidisciplinary group of 17 experts who focus on the psychiatric perspective of this tragic cause of infant death.

296 pages, Hardcover

First published September 3, 2002

Reviews

[Anna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Turner dissertation stand-in.

[Ashley]

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Own in hardback.

FS: “Maternal infanticide, or the murder of a child in the first year of life by its mother, is a subject both compelling and repulsive.”

LS: “The great promise of understanding them better will play out in incalculable saved lives.”