@article{ref1,
title="The work of Ambroise Tardieu: the first definitive description of child abuse",
journal="Child abuse and neglect",
year="2005",
author="Roche, Albert John and Fortin, Gilles and Labbé, J. and Brown, Jocelyn and Chadwick, David",
volume="29",
number="4",
pages="325-334",
abstract="The first important monograph describing the battered child syndrome was written in 1860 by Ambroise Tardieu, a French forensic physician. Here is a translation of his article, published in the Annales d'hygiene publique et de medecine legale, with the title &quot;Etude medico-legale sur les sevices et mauvais traitements exerces sur des enfants.&quot; The first part of his article is entirely translated. A brief summary of the 32 cases report described by Tardieu in the second part of his article is presented.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0145-2134",
doi="10.1016/j.chiabu.2004.04.007",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2004.04.007"
}