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Medical child abuse occurs when a child receives unnecessary and potentially harmful medical care at the instigation of a caretaker. Written and edited by leading experts on child abuse, """"Medical Child Abuse: Beyond Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy"""" makes the case that the term Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy should be retired permanently, and replaced with a commonsense appreciation that children can be abused by their parents in the medical environment. Physicians who find themselves giving unnecessary and harmful medical care can see the abuse for what it is - another way parents can harm children. The new resource offers the first detailed, and comprehensive description of treatment for this form of child maltreatment.

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Dr Thomas A. Roesler, MD, is associate professor of child and family psychiatry at the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University. He is codirector of the Hasbro Children's Partial Hospital Program, a day treatment program for children with combined physical and emotional illness. Dr Carole Jenny, MD, MBA, FAAP, is professor of pediatrics, also at Brown University, director of the ChildSafe child protection program at Hasbro Children's Hospital, and chair of the Committee on Child Abuse of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She has won numerous awards for her work in child abuse pediatrics.

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