The Violence of Care: Rape Victims, Forensic Nurses, and Sexual Assault Intervention

by Sameena Mulla

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479867217
• ISBN13: 9781479867219
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"