`Broadly ranging and often provocative, this volume is a notable attempt to draw together explanations for childhood death. It will stimulate thinking on the levels of child wastage tolerated and accommodated by whole societies and at the same time offerperspectives on the complex casuality of criminal deaths to individual children. The collection provides a new ... Read moremeasure of pluralistic and interdisciplinary consideration that should influence future research on child survival issues.' Odile Frank, Associate Center for Policy Studies, The Population Council `A powerful and tragic expose of child abuse as an epidemic of the modern world. How aggressive policies against maltreatment mask collective social responsibility.' Carol B. Stack, Duke University `This is a well-edited book that offers some compelling, intellectually provocative insights for clinicians and social scientists alike ... Although it clearly qualifies as a textbook and a reference book, it contains several chapters that will strongly interest the clinician.' The New England Journal of Medicine (1988) Show Less