The Death of Innocents: A True Story of Murder, Medicine, and High-Stakes Science by Richard Firstman & Jamie Talan

Author:Richard Firstman & Jamie Talan [Firstman, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780307806987
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2011-07-12T14:00:00+00:00

Department of Psychiatry

April 8, 1974

Alfred Steinschneider, Ph.D., M.D.

Department of Pediatrics

Upstate Medical Center

Syracuse, New York 13210

Dear Dr. Steinschneider:

I enjoyed your article on Apnea and S.I.D. in the October 1972 issue of Pediatrics. I would like to share some ideas of mine with you concerning S.I.D.

As a psychiatrist, I have been investigating attitudes of mothers towards their infants. This has led to my interest in infanticide and child battering. As you know, both of these are much more common phenomena than are usually recognized. I have been investigating the incidence of infanticide by smothering, possibly being hidden within the category of S.I.D. A number of such cases are known to us, but unfortunately not in percentage terms. However there are good psychiatric reasons for suspecting that a sizable percentage of S.I.D.’s are in fact infanticides.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.