The violence of care : rape victims, forensic nurses, and sexual assault intervention by Mulla, Sameena, author instant download

The violence of care : rape victims, forensic nurses, and sexual assault intervention by Mulla, Sameena, author instant download

1 online resource (viii, 277 pages), 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, 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, Print version record