Synopsis
An eight-week-old baby is rush ed to hospital bruised and with a broken arm. Her mother has admitted to "shaking her". Dr Danya Glaser explores the families history to uncover the crisis' roots.
- Programme: Horizon
- Episode: Battered Baby: 1: From Generation to Generation
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 1986
- Sociology
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