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Roy Meadow

British paediatrician · United Kingdom · Doctors · Born 1933 · age 93

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Sir Samuel Roy Meadow is a British retired paediatrician who facilitated several wrongful convictions of mothers for murdering their babies. He was awarded the Donald Paterson prize of the British Paediatric Association in 1968 for a study of the effects on parents of having a child in hospital.

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Sir Samuel Roy Meadow is a British retired paediatrician who facilitated several wrongful convictions of mothers for murdering their babies. He was awarded the Donald Paterson prize of the British Paediatric Association in 1968 for a study of the effects on parents of having a child in hospital. In 1976 Money and Werlwas coined the term Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy In 1977, Meadow published an academic paper describing the phenomenon Money and Werlwas dubbed Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSbP). In 1980 he was awarded a professorial chair in paediatrics at St James's University Hospital, Leeds, and in 1998, he was knighted for services to child health.

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United Kingdom
Category
Doctors
Type
Doctor
Status
living
Dates
Born 1933 · age 93

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