Diagnosing Murder , Episode 2, is available now. Click here to listen.

It wasn’t until the 1960s that anybody really acknowledged that child abuse happened. It took a crusader – young American paediatrician Henry Kempe – to identify what he called “battered child syndrome”.

A decade after that, the idea first emerged that shaking a baby alone could cause catastrophic brain injuries.

The Diagnosing Murder podcast examines the devastation inflicted on some families by this diagnosis. Episode 2, released at the weekend, answers the question: how did we get here?

It tells how British paediatric neurosurgeon Norman Guthkelch suggested in 1971 that people should “keep in mind the possibility” of abuse when they saw a particular set of injuries.

For Guthkelch and those who came after

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