Sexual assault: Key issues

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Volumn 100, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 321-324

  Cybulska, Beata ^a,b  

^a Haven Whitechapel   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; DEPRESSION; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; JUSTICE; LAW; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; POLICE; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; RAPE; REVIEW; SEXUAL CRIME; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUALITY; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; TRAINING; VICTIM; WITNESS;

EID: 34547122480     PISSN: 01410768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jrsm.100.7.321     Document Type: Review

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