Amalia's Tale
Negligence
Trials, litigation, etc
Criminal provisions
Syphilis
Medical laws and legislation
Malpractice
Professional-Patient Relations
Medical personnel
Lawyers
Jurisprudence
Trials, litigation
History
Examines a nineteenth-century court case in which attorney Augusto Barbieri took on the case of Amalia Bagnacavalli, an impoverished peasant woman from Bologna, Italy, who contracted syphilis from the sickly baby she had been forced to wet nurse.
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