Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: Although scientific literature about child abuse dates back to the 1850s, how society and medicine discussed and responded to this set of concerns changed dramatically in 1962.Since that time, the problem's fuller scope has been revealed and reforms have been implemented.Battered-Child Syndrome Abuse of children has a long history, regardless of whether such abuse was publicly sanctioned or restricted to domestic, private spheres.Examples of abuse of children go back to biblical times, 1 and laws dating from America's colonial period acknowledge the need to remove some children from unsafe home environments.2 But 1962 is when our modern understanding of child abuse seemed to emerge, 2,3 as it was the year that physician C. Henry Kempe and colleagues published their landmark article, which coined the term battered child syndrome, in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).4 This article reviews the influence of this turning point in the history of discussions and responses to child abuse in America.
Source: The AMA Journal of Ethic
Author: Jorie Braunold
Institution: American Medical Association
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4319655737