Writing Samples

My computer work tends to be both dry and confidential. This page features links to more readable material.

General interest essays

• On My Knees: Coming of Age Unstable  – originally published as a My Turn column in Newsweek Online
• Heresy From Abroad  – a guest column on bicycling in the Palo Alto Weekly

A few excerpts from my work against misguided convictions

• Prologue to my book
• Absolute Medical Certainty, the story of one accused babysitter and a look at the professional debate about shaken baby syndrome
• New Research Questions Classic Model of Shaken Baby Syndrome, a blog posting about an important piece of biomechanics research
• Whiplash Injury and Brain Damage, a book chapter introducing the early biomechanical work on infant shaking
• Profile of Dr. Norman Guthkelch, the grandfather of shaking theory (and his obituary)
• Obituary of Dr. John Plunkett, a potent force in the shaking debate
• From the Heart, From the Brain, a summary of Dr. Waney Squier’s TEDx talk on shaken baby syndrome
• How an Unproven Model of Shaken Baby Theory Is Sending Innocent People to Prison, the case that drew me into this topic

Academic analysis of shaken baby theory

• Shaken Baby Syndrome: Medico-Legal Miscommunication and the Derailing of Justice

Professional journal articles edited

• Biomechanical evaluation of head kinematics during infant shaking versus pediatric activities of daily living
• Retinal hemorrhages associated with fatal pediatric infections (abstract only—ask for text)
• Smartphone Image Acquisition During Postmortem Monocular Ophthalmoscopy (abstract only—ask for text)