{"product_id":"angels-of-death-twenty-three-healthcare-workers-who-used-their-positions-to-kill-9798198483828","title":"Angels of Death: Twenty-Three Healthcare Workers Who Used Their Positions to Kill","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Vera Sloane\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Diseases - Musculoskeletal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHook: the documented advertisement.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn advertisement ran in the \u003ci\u003eBristol Times \u0026amp; Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e through the 1880s and 1890s. \u003ci\u003eMarried couple with no family would adopt healthy child, nice country home. Terms,  10.\u003c\/i\u003e The married couple did not exist. The country home did not exist. The woman who took the infant and the cash at a Reading railway platform in 1896 had been running the same notice, under three rotated names, for twenty-seven years. The body of one of the children she received that March was pulled from the Thames at Caversham Lock by a bargeman on the morning of 30 March, with a length of white dressmaking tape knotted beneath the left ear. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmelia Dyer was the first English baby farmer to leave a documentary record of an industrial scale of practice. She was not the first to have killed her charges.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwenty-three cases collected here run from Dyer's hanging at Newgate in June 1896 to the Argentine cassation appeal pending against Brenda Ag�ero in C�rdoba in 2026. The credential profile runs from baby farmer and live-in caregiver through the registered nurse, the State Enrolled Nurse, the nursing assistant, the orderly, the general practitioner, and the medical doctor. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat the cases share, across nine countries and one and a third centuries, is the position of trust\u003c\/b\u003e - the bedside, the ward, the domiciliary house call, the credential the patient's family did not question, the access to medication the protocol did not require a second signature for. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThree of the cases sit in a category the chapters mark as \u003cb\u003elive controversy\u003c\/b\u003e: the 2010 Hoge Raad exoneration of Lucia de Berk; the 2025 Court of Appeal upholding of the Colin Norris convictions; the continuing review of the Lucy Letby case at Chester. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor readers of Harold Schechter, Patricia Pearson, and Atul Gawande's narrative pieces.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47890507858071,"sku":"9798198483828","price":1277.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798198483828.webp?v=1781180314","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/angels-of-death-twenty-three-healthcare-workers-who-used-their-positions-to-kill-9798198483828","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}