Chadwick D L
University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine.
Pediatr Clin North Am. 1990 Aug;37(4):955-70. doi: 10.1016/s0031-3955(16)36945-0.
Medical expert testimony in child abuse cases is a socially essential task if children are to be protected from abuse. Accomplishing this task in an excellent way is an important challenge requiring attention to its ethical, legal, and administrative aspects as well as to technical medical considerations. As the field of child protection matures as a medical specialty, expertise in child abuse becomes increasingly definable; it is now sufficiently definable to allow courts to begin to separate those physicians who are specialists in the field from those who are not.
如果要保护儿童免受虐待，在虐待儿童案件中提供医学专家证词是一项具有社会重要性的任务。以出色的方式完成这项任务是一项重大挑战，需要关注其伦理、法律和行政方面以及医学技术考量。随着儿童保护领域作为一门医学专业逐渐成熟，虐待儿童方面的专业知识越来越能够明确界定；现在已经足以明确界定，使法院能够开始区分该领域的专科医生和非专科医生。
