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from: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins  Dewey Decimal Number: 617.10083 EAN: 9780781724449 Edition: 2 ISBN: 0781724449 Label: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Manufacturer: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 590 Publication Date: April 15, 2001 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Studio: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Tufts Univ., Boston, MA. Provides a guide through the medical, surgical, radiographic, and laboratory terrain of child abuse and neglect. Advises best diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to the treatment of child abuse, current medical data, and collective knowledge of experts in the field. Previous edition: c1994. Color and halftone illustrations. DNLM: Child Abuse. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Classic reference text on Child Abuse & NeglectOn the brink of the 40th year of the formal recognition of child abuse and neglect, editors Robert Reece and Stephen Ludwig have brought to the field a textbook that embodies the critical elements of the scientific foundations of current medical understanding of maltreatment. Originally primarily a social action issue, the field of child abuse and neglect has matured into a medical subspecialty, built on a solid foundation of scientific study. Dr. Reece's first edition, published in 1994, represented ... Read More Rating:  - Essential for Child Abuse DefenseAlthough shorter than Monteleone's two volume set, it has slightly different information. I would recommend it for every social worker, prosecuting attorney and child abuse defense attorney. The knowledge and information in this book, if available to all participating parties in child abuse investigations, would reduce their number and result in more reliable findings in courts. It's in no ones interest to have child abuse petitions litigated or founded unnecessarily, particuilarly the children involved. 
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