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dc.contributor.authorLavis, Victoria J.*
dc.contributor.authorHorrocks, Christine*
dc.contributor.authorKelly, Nancy*
dc.contributor.authorBarker, V.*
dc.date.accessioned2009-04-06T14:19:38Z
dc.date.available2009-04-06T14:19:38Z
dc.date.issued2005-08
dc.identifier.citationLavis V, Horrocks C, Kelly N et al (2005) Domestic violence and health care: opening Pandora's Box - challenges and dilemmas. Feminism and Psychology. 15(4): 441-460.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10454/2551
dc.description.abstractIn this article we take a critical stance toward the rational progressive narrative surrounding the integration of domestic violence within health care. Whilst changes in recent UK policy and practice have resulted in several tangible benefits, it is argued that there may be hidden dilemmas and challenges. We suggest that the medical model of care and its discursive practices position women as individually accountable for domestic violence-related symptoms and injuries. This may not only be ineffective in terms of service provision but could also have the potential to reduce the political significance of domestic violence as an issue of concern for all women. Furthermore, it is argued that the use of specific metaphors enables practitioners to distance themselves from interactions that may prove to be less comfortable and provide less than certain outcomes. Our analysis explores the possibilities for change that might currently be available. This would appear to involve a consideration of alternative discourses and the reformulation of power relations and subject positions in health care.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSageen
dc.rightsThe final, definitive version of this paper has been published in Feminism and Psychology. Vol. 15, No. 4, pp.441-460 by SAGE Publications Ltd. All rights reserved. © 2005 SAGE Publications Ltd.en
dc.subjectDiscourseen
dc.subjectDomestic abuseen
dc.subjectHealth care responseen
dc.subjectIntimate partner violenceen
dc.subjectMedical modelen
dc.subjectMedicalisationen
dc.subjectRelational changeen
dc.subjectSubject positionsen
dc.subjectDomestic violenceen
dc.titleDomestic violence and health care: opening Pandora's Box - challenges and dilemmasen
dc.status.refereedYesen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.type.versionAccepted manuscripten
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1177/0959-353505057618
refterms.dateFOA2018-07-18T02:09:54Z


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