Getting away with murder? Puerperal insanity, infanticide and the defence plea

Infanticide: Historical Perspectives on Child Murder and Concealment, 1550-2000

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 168-192

  Marland, Hilary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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