Infanticide

Handbook of Forensic Medicine

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 504-515

  Bajanowski, Thomas ^a   Vennemann, Mechtild M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Children; Filicide; Infanticide; Neonaticide; Sampling procedures; Stillbirth; World health organization (WHO)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940878504     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118570654.ch26     Document Type: Chapter

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