Child abuse & neglect
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Child abuse & neglect · Oct 1997
Historical ArticleThe Whiplash Shaken Infant Syndrome: has Caffey's syndrome changed or have we changed his syndrome?
The aim of this study is to examine the data used by John Caffey in his description of the Whiplash Shaken Infant Syndrome and compare it with recent data in an attempt to determine whether the syndrome that he described has changed, or if we have changed his syndrome into what we now call The Shaken Infant Syndrome. ⋯ Our findings demonstrate that not only have we changed the diagnostic parameters from Caffey's original Whiplash Shaken Infant Syndrome, but the syndrome has also changed to reflect changes in medical diagnosis and in our society.