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Letters to the editor
Book review of
Physical Signs of Child Abuse
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Editor,—The medical aspects of child abuse and neglect are undeniably an area of some controversy within the profession. Clearly doctors you invite to review books on the subject are entitled to express their opinions within the context of their reviews. However, even allowing for this we were disconcerted by the tone and content of Dr Sunderland’s review.1 To us it read as an oblique attack on the overall work of Jane Wynne and Chris Hobbs from someone in an opposing camp. Where Dr …