Research Catalog

Title

Child abuse : medical diagnosis & management / editors, Robert M. Reece, Cindy W. Christian.

Publication

[Elk Grove Village, Ill.] : American Academy of Pediatrics, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Reece, Robert M.
• Christian, Cindy W.
• American Academy of Pediatrics

Description

xiii, 906 p. : ill. (some col.); 27 cm.

Summary

"Now published by the AAP, this revised and updated 3rd edition offers a practical, objective, evidence-based guide to the medical diagnosis, and management of child abuse. Now published by the AAP! The previous two editions of Child Abuse: Medical Diagnosis & Management were recognized as one of the leading sources of information on diagnosing and treating child abuse. Written and edited by a vast array of the world's leading experts on child abuse and neglect, the new 3rd edition of Child Abuse: Medical Diagnosis & Management clearly explains the signs, symptoms, and injuries of the abused child. Features more than 250 illustrations and a wealth of medical, surgical, radiographic, and laboratory information. New chapters include: Epidemiology of maltreatment, Abusive head trauma, Interviewing of child victims, Adolescent sexual assault Role of forensic analysis, Unusual manifestations of abuse, Pathology seen in fatal child abuse, Neurobiology of abuse, Long term consequences of abuse and neglect."--Publisher's website.

Alternative Title

Child abuse : medical diagnosis and management

Subject

• Child Abuse
• Abused children
• Battered child syndrome
• Child abuse
• Battered Child Syndrome

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The evolution of child abuse research / Heather T. Keenan and John M. Leventhal -- Cutaneous manifestations of child abuse / Carole Jenny and Robert M. Reece -- Head trauma / Lucy Rorke-Adams ... [et al.] -- Skeletal manifestations of child abuse / Daniel R. Cooperman and David F. Merten -- Visceral manifestations of child physical abuse / Michael L. Nance and Arthur Cooper -- Maxillofacial, neck, and dental manifestations of child abuse / Cindy W. Christian and Lynn Douglas Mouden -- Ocular manifestations of child abuse / Alex V. Levin and Yair Morad -- Conditions mistaken for child physical abuse / Kent Hymel and Stephen Boos -- Interviewing the prepubertal child for possible sexual abuse / Kathleen Coulborn Faller -- Medical aspects of prepubertal sexual abuse / Martin A. Finkel -- Medical management of the adolescent sexual abuse/assault victim / Heather Littleton and Abbey Berenson -- Sexually transmitted infections in child sexual abuse / Allan R. DeJong --
• The role of forensic materials in sexual abuse and assault / Kathi Makoroff, Melissa Desai, and Elizabeth Benzinger -- Conditions mistaken for child sexual abuse / Nancy D. Kellogg and Lori Frasier -- Child neglect / Howard Dubowitz and Maureen M. Black -- Failure to thrive / Deborah A. Frank ... [et al.] -- Munchausen syndrome by proxy / Donna Andrea Rosenberg -- Child abuse by poisoning / Frederick M. Henretig, Robert Paschall, and Marcella M. Donaruma-Kwoh -- Immersion injury in child abuse and neglect / Kenneth W. Feldman -- Unusual manifestations of child abuse / Rebecca R.S. Socolar and Desmond K. Runyan -- Pathology of fatal abuse / Tom Andrew and Jordan Greenbaum -- Sudden infant death syndrome and fatal child abuse / Henry F. Krous and Roger W. Byard -- Photodocumentation and other technologies / Lawrence R. Ricci and Robert A. Shapiro -- Neurobiology and the long-term effects of early abuse and neglect / John Stirling -- Legal aspects of child abuse / John E.B. Myers --
• Medical and psychological sequelae of child abuse and neglect / David Rubin, James A. Feinstein, and Carol D. Berkowitz.

ISBN

• 9781581102086
• 1581102089

LCCN

^^2005936502

OCLC

• 276637315
• SCSB-10374643

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library