LIMITATIONS OF THE MEDICAL MODEL IN THE CARE OF BATTERED WOMEN
- 1 December 1989
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Gender & Society
- Vol. 3 (4) , 506-517
- https://doi.org/10.1177/089124389003004008
Abstract
Analysis of records of women at risk for abuse showed that though information about abuse was present, emergency room physicians rarely utilized it. The doctor-patient interaction tended to obscure rather than elucidate knowledge of abuse. Medicine's epistemologic model of care reconstructs abusive relationships through a medical encounter in which what is most significant is not seen. Nurses are less affected by the model but are under institutional constraints that lead to similar outcomes.Keywords
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