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1 online resource (viii, 277 pages), Every year in the U.S., thousands of women and hundreds of men participate in sexual assault forensic examinations. Drawing on four years of participatory research in a Baltimore emergency room, Sameena Mulla reveals the realities of sexual assault response in the forensic age. Taking an approach developed at the intersection of medical and legal anthropology, she analyzes the ways in which nurses work to collect and preserve evidence while addressing the needs of sexual assault victims as patients. Mulla argues that blending the work of care and forensic investigation into a single interventi, Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-266) and index, Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Sexual Violence in the City; 1. \"The Hand of God\": DNA and Victim Subjectivity in Sexual Assault Intervention; 2. Making Time: Temporalities of Law, Healing, and Sexual Violence; 3. On Truth and Disgust: Managing Emotion in the Forensic Intervention; 4. Re/production: Articulating Paths to Healing and Justice; 5. Facing Victims: Vision and Visage in the Forensic Exam; 6. Documentary Agency: Institutional Dispositions toward Gender and Rape Myth

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Author

Mulla, Sameena, author

Publisher

New York University Press; New York Univesrsity Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781479800315

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Medical, Anthropology

Updated

2026-03-24