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Book SynopsisEvery 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, this book reveals the realities of sexual assault response in the forensic age.
Trade Review"[A] book that is both personal, critical, profound and at times difficult to read." * Metapsychology *
"Once in a while comes along a book that not only adds a new dimension to existing knowledge of a phenomenon but changes our angle of vision on it. The Violence of Care is such a book. Through the lens of forensic nursing, Sameena Mulla rearranges categories of law, violence, care, kinship, and obligation, shifting our horizon of thought and allowing new aspects of these familiar categories to dawn on us. A stunning achievement." -- Veena Das,Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
"The book is a masterful call to reflection and reform. It deserves to be read by scholars in any discipline concerned with institutional responses to sexual violence and how they transform patient-provider encounters in spaces where medicine and law converge." * Theoretical Criminology *
Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Sexual Violence in the City 1 1. "The Hand of God": DNA and Victim Subjectivity in 37 Sexual Assault Intervention 2. Making Time: Temporalities of Law, Healing, and Sexual Violence 57 3. On Truth and Disgust: Managing Emotion in the Forensic 76 Intervention 4. Re/production: Articulating Paths to Healing and Justice 103 5. Facing Victims: Vision and Visage in the Forensic Exam 130 6. Documentary Agency: Institutional Dispositions toward 152 Gender and Rape Myths 7. There Is No Place Like Home: Home, Harm, and Healing 176 8. Patient and Victim Compliance: Drugs, AIDS, and Local 195 Geographies of Care Conclusion: "We're Not There for the Victim": The Violence 217 of Forensic Care Notes 231 Bibliography 243 Index 267 About the Author 277
