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100 1 $aFirstman, Richard.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97028372
245 14 $aThe death of innocents /$cRichard Firstman and Jamie Talan.
260 $aNew York :$bBantam Books,$c1997.
300 $avii, 632 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aPublished simultaneously in the United States and Canada.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 614-621) and index.
520 $aUnraveling a twenty-five-year tale of multiple murder and medical deception, The Death of Innocents is a work of first-rate journalism told with the compelling narrative drive of a mystery novel.
520 8 $aOn July 28, 1971, a two-and-a-half-month-old baby named Noah Hoyt died in his trailer home in a rural hamlet of upstate New York. He was the fifth child of Waneta and Tim Hoyt to die suddenly in the space of seven years. People certainly talked, but Waneta spoke vaguely of "crib death," and over time the talk faded.
520 8 $aNearly two decades later a district attorney in Syracuse, New York, was alerted to a landmark paper in the literature on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome - SIDS - that had been published in a prestigious medical journal back in 1972. Written by a prominent researcher at a Syracuse medical center, the article described a family in which five children had died suddenly without explanation. The D.A. was convinced that something about this account was very wrong.
520 8 $aAn intensive quest by a team of investigators came to a climax in the spring of 1995, in a dramatic multiple-murder trial that made headlines nationwide.
520 8 $aBut this book is not only a vivid account of infanticide revealed; it is also a riveting medical detective story. That journal article had legitimized the deaths of the last two babies by theorizing a cause for the mystery of SIDS, suggesting it could be predicted and prevented, and fostering the presumption that SIDS runs in families. More than two decades of multimillion-dollar studies have failed to confirm any of these widely accepted premises.
520 8 $aHow all this happened - could have happened - is a compelling story of high-stakes medical research in action.
600 10 $aVanDerSluys, Stephen.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97028658
600 10 $aHoyt, Waneta,$d1946-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96010138
650 0 $aFilicide$zUnited States$vCase studies.
650 0 $aMunchausen syndrome by proxy$zUnited States$vCase studies.
650 0 $aSudden infant death syndrome.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85129616
650 0 $aMurder$xInvestigation$zUnited States$vCase studies.
650 2 $aMunchausen Syndrome by Proxy.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D016735
650 2 $aSudden Infant Death.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013398
651 2 $aUnited States.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
700 1 $aTalan, Jamie.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97028376
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