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The violence of care : rape victims, forensic nurses, and sexual assault intervention /

Mulla, Sameena,

The violence of care : rape victims, forensic nurses, and sexual assault intervention / Sameena Mulla. - 1 online resource (viii, 277 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-266) and index.

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Sexual Violence in the City; 1. "The Hand of God": DNA and Victim Subjectivity in Sexual Assault Intervention; 2. Making Time: Temporalities of Law, Healing, and Sexual Violence; 3. On Truth and Disgust: Managing Emotion in the Forensic Intervention; 4. Re/production: Articulating Paths to Healing and Justice; 5. Facing Victims: Vision and Visage in the Forensic Exam; 6. Documentary Agency: Institutional Dispositions toward Gender and Rape Myths; 7. There Is No Place Like Home: Home, Harm, and Healing. 8. Patient and Victim Compliance: Drugs, AIDS, and Local Geographies of CareConclusion: "We're Not There for the Victim": The Violence of Forensic Care; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; About the Author.

Every year in the U.S., thousands of women and hundreds of men participate in sexual assault forensic examinations. Drawing on four years of participatory research in a Baltimore emergency room, Sameena Mulla reveals the realities of sexual assault response in the forensic age. Taking an approach developed at the intersection of medical and legal anthropology, she analyzes the ways in which nurses work to collect and preserve evidence while addressing the needs of sexual assault victims as patients. Mulla argues that blending the work of care and forensic investigation into a single interventi.


English.

9781479878901 1479878901

10.18574/9781479878901 doi

22573/ctt8jv7d1 JSTOR

2014002839


Rape victims--Services for--Psychological aspects.--United States
Forensic nursing--United States.
Rape.

RA1141

362.883

WY 170
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