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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: Alec Jeffreys, Henry Lee, Roy Meadow, Pierre Delval, Calvin Goddard, Kathy Reichs, Auguste Ambroise Tardieu, Joyce Gilchrist, Alphonse Bertillon, Bernard Spilsbury, Park Dietz, Ted Coombs, Anil Aggrawal, Colleen Fitzpatrick, Mark Benecke, Frank Skuse, Henry Faulds, Thomas Thurman, Albert S. Osborn, Paul L. Kirk, Archibald Reiss, Joseph Bell, Sydney Smith, Arthur P. Luff, Paul Uhlenhuth, Jan Garavaglia, Keith Simpson, Maziar Ashrafian Bonab, Thomas Hayes, Reidar Fauske Sognnaes, Alexandre Beaudoin, Theodric Romeyn Beck, David R. Ashbaugh, Meyer Kaplan, Sir William Herschel, 2nd Baronet, Paul Brouardel, Brian E. Dalrymple, Douglas Maclagan, Dayle Hinman, Frances Glessner Lee, Bessie Blount Griffin, Michelle Harvey, Henry Littlejohn, Richard J. Schmidt, Edmond Locard, Juan Vucetich, Louis R. Vitullo, Joseph L. Gormley, Francis Camps, Iain West, James Cameron, Antonio Filippo Ciucci, Fredric Rieders, Andrzej Janikowski, Julius Grant, Skip Palenik, Fred Zain, Wilfrid Derome, Mina Minovici, Marie Cassidy, Helena Ranta, Adolf Streckeisen, John Glaister. Excerpt: Professor Sir Samuel Roy Meadow (born 1933) is a British paediatrician who rose to initial fame for his 1977 academic paper on the now controversial Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSbP) and his crusade against parents who, he believes, wilfully harm or kill their children. He was knighted for these works. He was instrumental in the procedure of a widely recognised great miscarriage of justice. He endorsed the dictum that "one sudden infant death is a tragedy, two is suspicious and three is murder, until proved otherwise" in his book ABC of Child Abuse and this became known as Meadow's Law and at one time was widely adopted by social workers and child protection agencies (such as the NSPCC) in Britain. He appeared as an expert witness for the prosecution in several t...
