Domestic violence and health care: Opening pandora's box - Challenges and dilemmas

Feminism and Psychology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 441-460

  Lavis, Victoria ^a   Horrocks, Christine ^a   Kelly, Nancy ^a   Barker, Val ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b Castleford and Normanton District Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discourse; Domestic abuse; Health care response; Intimate partner violence; Medical model; Medicalization; Relational change; Subject positions

Indexed keywords

EID: 27644537624     PISSN: 09593535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959-353505057618     Document Type: Review

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