Child Sexual Abuse and Medical Expertise in Nineteenth-Century France.
Child sexual abuse was a prevalent problem that appeared before the courts with dramatically increasing frequency in nineteenth-century France. During this period medical experts played a much more influential role in the courts; however, those summoned to intervene in child sexual assault cases not...
| Publicado en: | French Historical Studies Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 391 - 422 |
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Duke University Press
Aug2019
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