Contested Moral Logics of Care with Infanticidal Mothers: A Critical Nursing Research
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- 15 September 2026
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Issues in Mental Health Nursing
- Vol. 47 (10) , 1140-1151
Abstract
Infanticide refers to the killing of a child under one year of age by their mother (Dawson, 2015; Kramar, 2005; Kramar & Watson, 2008; Spinelli, 2019). In Canada and many other jurisdictions, this ...Keywords
Funding Information
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (#430-2023-247)
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