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  • Chapter 1 - Maintaining the Orthodoxy and Silencing Dissent

  • from Section 1 - Prologue
  • Edited by Keith A. Findley, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Cyrille Rossant, University College London, Kana Sasakura, Konan University, Japan, Leila Schneps, Sorbonne Université, Paris, Waney Squier, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, Knut Wester, Universitetet i Bergen, Norway
  • Book:
    Shaken Baby Syndrome
    Published online:
    07 June 2023
    Print publication:
    08 June 2023, pp 1-10

  • Summary

    Shaken baby syndrome (SBS) is a controversial medical ‘diagnosis’ that is challenged by an increasing number of reputable medical professionals, scientists, and lawyers. This chapter outlines various attacks made on those who challenge the mainstream view of the scientific and forensic reliability of these medical determinations, with the goal of delegitimising their perspective and maintaining the authority of the orthodoxy. The scientific and medical debate in the field has become toxic, described as ‘tribal warfare’. The chapter identifies and explains the fault lines at the interfaces between science, law, and medicine that have led to such an unhealthy environment, and how this has impeded the progress of science in the field.

  • Chapter 25 - Shaken Baby Syndrome in Australia

  • from Section 5 - International
  • Edited by Keith A. Findley, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Cyrille Rossant, University College London, Kana Sasakura, Konan University, Japan, Leila Schneps, Sorbonne Université, Paris, Waney Squier, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, Knut Wester, Universitetet i Bergen, Norway
  • Book:
    Shaken Baby Syndrome
    Published online:
    07 June 2023
    Print publication:
    08 June 2023, pp 374-382

  • Summary

    The orthodox view of shaken baby syndrome (SBS) has been predominant amongst the medical and forensic communities for decades, over which time scores of accusations of child abuse have been made based on standard diagnostic methods, which have been scientifically verified. Convictions for murder, manslaughter and child homicide have resulted in jail sentences of up to 35 years, whilst actions taken through family courts have resulted in removal of children. We discuss how belief in SBS has been systematically incorporated into Australian medical, forensic, judicial, policing, and social service institutions. We also highlight some important challenges that have been made to the orthodox views in Australia, despite the ongoing general adoption of the orthodoxy.

  • A reappraisal of the freehold property market in late medieval England

  • Adrian R. Bell, Chris Brooks, Helen Killick
  • Journal:
    Continuity and Change / Volume 34 / Issue 3 / December 2019
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 December 2019, pp. 287-313
    Print publication:
    December 2019
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  • This article re-examines the late medieval market in freehold land, the extent to which it was governed by market forces as opposed to political or social constraints, and how this contributed to the commercialisation of the late medieval English economy. We employ a valuable new resource for study of this topic in the form of an extensive dataset on late medieval English freehold property transactions. Through analysis of this data, we examine how the level of market activity (the number of sales) and the nature of the properties (the relative proportions of different types of asset) varied across regions and over time. In particular, we consider the impact of exogenous factors and the effects of growing commercialisation. We argue that peaks of activity following periods of crisis (Great Famine and Black Death) indicate that property ownership became open to market speculation. In so doing, we present an important new perspective on the long-term evolution of the medieval English property market.

  • Medieval Property Investors, ca. 1300–1500

  • ADRIAN R. BELL, CHRIS BROOKS, HELEN KILLICK
  • Journal:
    Enterprise & Society / Volume 20 / Issue 3 / September 2019
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    29 April 2019, pp. 575-612
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    September 2019
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  • This paper uses a data set of freehold land and property transactions from medieval England to highlight the growing commercialization of the economy during that time. By drawing on the legal records, we are able to demonstrate that the medieval real estate market provided the opportunity for investors to profit. Careful analysis of the data provides evidence of group purchases, multiple transactions, and investors buying outside their own localities. The identification of these “investors” and their buying behaviors, set within the context of the English medieval economy, contributes to the early commercialization debate.

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