An edition of Amalia's Tale (2008)
Amalia's tale
an impoverished peasant woman, an ambitious attorney, and a fight for justice
By David I. Kertzer
Publish Date
2008
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Language
eng
Pages
256
Description:
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.
subjects: Medical personnel, Trials, litigation, Lawyers, Trials (Malpractice), Jurisprudence, Trials, litigation, etc, Professional Misconduct, Criminal Negligence, Criminal provisions, Medical laws and legislation, Malpractice, Syphilis, Negligence, Criminal, Professional-Patient Relations, History, Medical personnel, malpractice, Negligence, Trials, europe, Bologna (italy), Law, italy
People: Amalia Bagnacavalli, Augusto Barbieri
Places: Bologna, Bologna (Italy), Italy