This book explores how medical and psychiatric knowledge, practitioners, and practices respond to sexual violence. It highlights how the medical and psychiatric fields often reproduce political and social dynamics of discrimination, othering, marginalisation, neglect, or surveillance, through their own sets of discourses and practices. Covering a wide range of geographical case studies including the UK, Australia, Kenya, and Argentina, this book is the first cohesive edited collection to unite interdisciplinary scholarship on this topic.

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Examines how, when, and why sexual violence came to be seen as within the remit of health professionals Explores how those health professionals interacted with legal systems Furthers our understanding of the present through analysis of shifts in knowledge of and responses to sexual violence

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Rhian Elinor Keyse is Lecturer in Global Historical Studies at University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK.

Adeline Moussion Esteve is Postdoctoral Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.

Emma Yapp is Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol, UK.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- Part 1. Psycho-Medical Expertise in Question.- 2. Exploring Trauma as Feminist Praxis in the Australian Field of Sexual Assault Service Provision.- 3. Precarious Psy Expertise to Prevent Gender-Based Violence: The Case of Quebec.- 4. Historical Perspectives on Prevention and Punishment of Child Sexual Abuse: Analysing Medico-legal Responses.- 5. Challenging Ideas of Vulnerability in Prevention of Violence Through the Stories, Experiences and Advocacy of Women With Disabilities.- Part 2. Medical Knowledge in Forensic Settings.- 6. Racialisation in the Court and Clinic: Controlling Images, Black Motherhood and Sexual Assault Forensic Intervention.- 7. Sleep Medicine Expertise and Sexual Offences: An Unsettled and Unsettling Alliance.- 8. Accounts of Non-Resistance in Rape Verdicts: The Psychological Response Model and the State of Liminality.- Part 3. Historicising Medical and Psychiatric Responses to Sexual Violence.- 9. 'Too Frightening and Inconceivable for a Balanced Mind': Sexual Violence and Mental Illness in Jewish Community Archives in Argentina.- 10. 'We Are Not Inclined to Accept the Rape Story': Medical Evidence and Sexual Violence in Kenya, c.1920-1960.- 11. A Crisis of Consent? Police Surgeons, Rape and HIV/AIDS in Late Twentieth-Century Britain.