Title: Amalia's Tale
First published: 2008
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
Places: Bologna, Bologna (Italy), Italy
People: Amalia Bagnacavalli, Augusto Barbieri
LC classification: KKH41.B65 K47 2008