Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Unwilling Mothers, Unwanted Babies -- Introduction -- 1 Regulating Infanticide through Concealment of Birth -- 2 Unwanted Babies: Humanitarianism and the Infant -- 3 The Insanities of Reproduction: Medico- Legal Knowledge Informing Infanticide Law -- 4 Unwilling Mothers: The Disappearance of the " Unwanted" Baby -- 5 Vengeance for the Innocents: The New Medico- Legal Designation of " Infanticide" as " Child Abuse Homicide" -- 6 Retributive Justice: The Disappearance of Infanticide -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Current Legal Framework Governing Maternal Neonaticide -- Notes -- References -- Index.