California's mandatory reporting of domestic violence injuries: Does the law go too far or not far enough?

Western Journal of Medicine

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 118-119

  Bauer, Heidi M ^a   Mooney, Donna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MANDATORY REPORTING; MEDICAL ETHICS; PATIENT ADVOCACY; SOCIAL CONTROL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CALIFORNIA; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MANDATORY REPORTING; PATIENT ADVOCACY; SOCIAL CONTROL, FORMAL;

EID: 0033173822     PISSN: 00930415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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