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Women at risk : domestic violence and women's health /
Battering by men is the most significant cause of injury to women in our society. It is also a major cause of child abuse, murder, substance abuse and female suicide attempts. This volume, the result of 15 years of research conducted by the authors - a social worker and physician respectively - expl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Thousand Oaks :
Sage Publications,
©1996.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1. Theoretical perspectives. Medicine and patriarchal violence
- Imagining woman battering: social knowledge, social therapy, and patriarchal benevolence
- Part 2. Health consequences. Women and children at risk: a feminist perspective on child abuse
- Killing the beast within: woman battering and female suicidality
- Preventing gendered homicide
- Part 3. Clinical interventions. Personal power and institutional victimization: treating the dual trauma of woman battering
- Clinical violence intervention: lessons from battered women
- Discharge planning with battered women
- Physicians and domestic violence: challenges for prevention.