The sad subject of Infanticide: Law, medicine and child murder, 1860-1938

Social and Legal Studies

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 163-180

  Ward, Tony ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1177/096466399900800201     Document Type: Article

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