{"product_id":"the-violence-of-care-9781479867219","title":"The Violence of Care","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvery 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] book that is both personal, critical, profound and at times difficult to read.\" * Metapsychology *\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents   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","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409084293463,"sku":"9781479867219","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781479867219.jpg?v=1730505384","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-violence-of-care-9781479867219","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}