The Death of Innocents : A True Story of Murder, Medicine, and High-Stake Science

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Summary: Great reading, emotional and great investigations.
Review: This is a true story Crime Novel that every Police investigator and child abuse investigator should read. Medical personnel would greatly enhance their knowledge in preventing child deaths by reading this book. To uncover such horrible child abuse and deaths was amazing to me and the resistance that Professionals portrayed in allowing the deaths of so many children in any one family was beyond belief. This is must read for anyone dealing with children.

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Summary: An excellent book
Review: This is an excellent account of an important case in the history of pediatric medicine. The authors have researched the subject carefully, chosen the elements of their account with skill, and written a spellbinding story that is difficult to put down. Superb!

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Summary: Must Read for Pediatricians, Pathologists, and Prosecutors
Review: Thoroughly researched and brilliantly told! The truth of ego-driven medical research and its lasting effects on medicine, law, children, and society. This book kept me going in the field of Child Abuse Evaluation.

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Summary: Must Read for Pediatricians, Pathologists, and Prosecutors
Review: Thoroughly researched and brilliantly told! The truth of ego-driven medical research and its lasting effects on medicine, law, children, and society. This book kept me going in the field of Child Abuse Evaluation.

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Summary: A can't-put-down challenging read
Review: Truth certainly is more strange than fiction, and the authors have managed to capture an incredible story. Additionally, to their and their editor's credit, the book has not been 'dumb-downed' to be an easy read. Instead, it is a well-written, succinct yet thorough account of poor scientific method combined with the political and personal biases which we sometimes blindly pretend don't exist in the police, judicial, and our own social systems. The reader will be both outraged and satisfied. An eye-opener which won't insult your intelligence.

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Summary: Got it as a true crime, but was much more and much better
Review: You'll start reading this and get a tale of many cities - it's not a true crime story, it's a stunning cultural tour of science, emotions, fads, murder and self promotion. Like all the other reviews say, it's a lengthy book - the first 100 fly, then you'll slog through another 100 or so but then it will fly and rivet your attention. Read it and then think about the latest flaps about autism, gulf war syndrome, whatever - you'll really get a sea change in views. I'd give it five stars but for the following reasons - 1) the "sag" in the second 100 pages and 2) the authors seem give blank acceptance to some people and statements and partially reconstruct some conversations, 3)They question multiple SIDS deaths in one family (murder?) but shy hard away from the single death, and never challenge the emptiness of the either the SIDS diagnosis or murder presumption (i.e. calling a death SIDS simply because there's no explaination or calling multiple deaths in one family probable murder because SIDS "doesn't run in families"). But still an excellent book - highly recommended.