Abstract
During the 1960s child abuse and neglect, long grappled with as a vexing and chronic social problem by generations of child welfare and social workers, was suddenly “discovered” and expropriated by a more powerful profession: medicine. When C. Henry Kempe and his associates (1962) at Colorado General Hospital created a new diagnostic entity — the “Battered Child Syndrome” — the American public finally sat up and took notice.1
This chapter is dedicated to the memory of George Devereux; who died 29 May, 1985.
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Scheper-Hughes, N., Stein, H.F. (1987). Child Abuse and the Unconscious in American Popular Culture. In: Scheper-Hughes, N. (eds) Child Survival. Culture, Illness and Healing, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3393-4_17
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