Table of contents

# Author Chapter
PROLOGUE
Barry Scheck Foreword
1 Chris Brook Maintaining the Orthodoxy and Silencing Dissent
2 Randy Papetti The History of SBS
MEDICINE
3 Waney Squier, Tommie Olofsson The neuropathology of SBS or retinodural haemorrhage of infancy
4 Julie Mack, Waney Squier The importance of the correlation between radiology and pathology in SBS
5 Knut Wester, Johan Wikström SBS, AHT – or just a type of hydrocephalus?
6 Knut Wester, Johan Wikström, Joseph Scheller SBS or benign external hydrocephalus - how is AHT depicted in the scientific literature?
7 Marta Cohen Are some cases of sudden infant death syndrome incorrectly diagnosed as SBS?
8 Bernard Echenne AHT: the importance of predisposing factors
9 Marvin Miller How I Became a SBS Skeptic Paediatrician
SCIENCE
10 Niels Lynoe, Anders Eriksson The Swedish systematic literature review on suspected traumatic shaking (SBS) and its aftermath
11 Deborah Davis, Richard Leo Interrogation and the Infanticide Suspect: Mechanisms of Vulnerability to False Confession
12 Keith Findley Can confession substitute for science in SBS/AHT?
13 Jeff Kukucka, Keith Findley Cognitive Bias in Medicolegal Judgments
14 Kirk Thibault Biomechanical forensic analysis of shaking and short fall head injury mechanisms in infants and young children
15 Leila Schneps When lack of information leads to apparent paradoxes and wrong conclusions: analysis of a seminal article on short falls
16 Ulf Högberg Epidemiology of findings claimed to be highly specific for SBS/AHT, a prerequisite to improve diagnosis of child abuse
17 Norman Fenton, Scott McLachlan SBS: Exploring concerns about the ‘triad’ diagnosis and its statistical validation using a causal Bayesian Network
LAW
18 Felicity Goodyear-Smith Mandatory reporting of child maltreatment
19 Kathleen Pakes SBS/AHT Opinion Evidence in U.S. Courts
20 Keith Findley Undoing Wrongful Convictions: Exonerating the Innocent in SBS/AHT Cases
INTERNATIONAL
21 Clive Stafford Smith Ptolemy rather than Copernicus — The State of SBS In the British Legal System
22 Cyrille Rossant, Grégoire Etrillard SBS in France
23 Ulf Högberg, Goran Högberg Sweden and SBS/AHT
24 Kana Sasakura SBS/AHT in Japan
25 Chris Brook, Michael Nott SBS in Australia
26 Multiple authors SBS around the world

Errata