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The Violence of Care - Rape Victims, Forensic Nurses, and Sexual Assault Intervention (Hardcover)
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The Violence of Care - Rape Victims, Forensic Nurses, and Sexual Assault Intervention (Hardcover)
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Winner, 2017 Margaret Mead Award presented by the American
Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied
Anthropology Honorable Mention, 2015 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize
presented by the Society for Medical Anthropology Analyzes the ways
in which nurses work to collect and preserve evidence while
addressing the needs of sexual assault victims as patients Every
year in the US, 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 intervention
shapes how victims of violence understand their own suffering,
recovery, and access to justice-in short, what it means to be a
"victim". As nurses race the clock to preserve biological evidence,
institutional practices, technologies, and even state requirements
for documentation undermine the way in which they are able to offer
psychological and physical care. Yet most of the evidence they
collect never reaches the courtroom and does little to increase the
number of guilty verdicts. Mulla illustrates the violence of care
with painstaking detail, illuminating why victims continue to
experience what many call "secondary rape" during forensic
intervention, even as forensic nursing is increasingly
professionalized. Revictimization can occur even at the hands of
conscientious nurses, simply because they are governed by
institutional requirements that shape their practices. The Violence
of Care challenges the uncritical adoption of forensic practice in
sexual assault intervention and post-rape care, showing how
forensic intervention profoundly impacts the experiences of
violence, justice, healing and recovery for victims of rape and
sexual assault.
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