{"title":"Children, Sexual Abuse and the Emotions of the Community Health Practitioner in England and Wales, 1970-2000.","authors":"Ruth Beecher","doi":"10.1093/jhmas/jrad024","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jhmas/jrad024","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A survivor of child sexual abuse felt that doctors missed opportunities to notice her distress when, at fourteen, she had an unexplained illness that lasted for a year. The cause, she wrote, was \"explained by Doctors as psychological, but nobody questioned further. WHY??? … If adults don't listen[,] then we have no one to turn to.\" For decades, community health practitioners have been identified as an important group in protecting children from maltreatment, but survivor testimony and agency statistics demonstrate that they rarely receive verbal disclosures or recognize the physical or behavioural warning signs of sexual abuse. The accounts we have of the 1980s tell of swiftly heightening professional awareness, followed by a visceral backlash in the latter part of the decade that discouraged practitioners from acting on their concerns. This article uses trade and professional journals, training materials, textbooks, and new oral histories to consider why community-based doctors and nurses have struggled to notice and respond to the sexually abused child. It will argue that the conceptual model of child sexual abuse that community health practitioners encountered in the workplace encouraged a mechanical and procedural response to suspicions of abuse. In a highly gendered and contested workplace, practitioners' feelings about how survivors, non-abusing family members, and perpetrators should be understood were rarely debated in training or in practice. The emotional cost to the practitioners of engagement with sexual abuse, and their need for spaces of reflexivity and structures of support, were ignored.</p>","PeriodicalId":49998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences","volume":" ","pages":"365-380"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10518052/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9425648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Opioid Reckoning: Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State. Amy C. Sullivan","authors":"John A Carranza","doi":"10.1093/jhmas/jrad061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrad061","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Opioid Reckoning: Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State. Amy C. Sullivan Get access Opioid Reckoning: Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State Amy C. SullivanMinneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 288 pp. John A Carranza John A Carranza University of Texas at Austin, USA jcarranz@utexas.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, jrad061, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrad061 Published: 15 September 2023","PeriodicalId":49998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences","volume":"238 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135394476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emily A. Wentzell, <i>Collective Biologies: Healing Social Ills through Sexual Health Research in Mexico</i>","authors":"Sara V Komarnisky","doi":"10.1093/jhmas/jrad058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrad058","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Emily A. Wentzell, Collective Biologies: Healing Social Ills through Sexual Health Research in Mexico Get access Emily A. WentzellCollective Biologies: Healing Social Ills through Sexual Health Research in MexicoDurham: Duke University Press, 2022. 24XX pp. Sara V Komarnisky Sara V Komarnisky Aurora College, Yellowknife, Canada skomarnisky@auroracollege.nt.ca Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, jrad058, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrad058 Published: 13 September 2023","PeriodicalId":49998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135733891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disorder: A History of Reform, Reaction, and Money in American Medicine. Peter A. Swenson","authors":"Evan Elizabeth Hart","doi":"10.1093/jhmas/jrad060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrad060","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135879192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Elsa L. Fan, <i>Commodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in China</i>","authors":"Alma Ionescu","doi":"10.1093/jhmas/jrad059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrad059","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Elsa L. Fan, Commodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in China Get access Elsa L. FanCommodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in ChinaMinneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 216 pp. Alma Ionescu Alma Ionescu University College London, UK alma.ionescu.20@ucl.ac.uk Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, jrad059, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrad059 Published: 05 September 2023","PeriodicalId":49998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135253937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guarding the Golden Gate: A History of the U.S. Quarantine Station in San Francisco Bay. J. Gordon Frierson","authors":"Jamie Marsella","doi":"10.1093/jhmas/jrad056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrad056","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Guarding the Golden Gate: A History of the U.S. Quarantine Station in San Francisco Bay. J. Gordon Frierson Get access Guarding the Golden Gate: A History of the U.S. Quarantine Station in San Francisco Bay J. Gordon FriersonReno: University of Nevada Press, 2022. 240 pp. Jamie Marsella Jamie Marsella Harvard University, MA, USA jmarsella@g.harvard.edu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5763-187X Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, jrad056, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrad056 Published: 02 September 2023","PeriodicalId":49998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134949098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity. Wei Yu and Wayne Tan","authors":"Frank Mondelli","doi":"10.1093/jhmas/jrad055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrad055","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity. Wei Yu and Wayne Tan Get access Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity Wei Yu and Wayne TanAnn Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2022. 266 pp. Frank Mondelli Frank Mondelli University of Delaware, USA fvmondelli@ucdavis.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, jrad055, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrad055 Published: 02 September 2023","PeriodicalId":49998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134949096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stethoscope: The Making of a Medical Icon. Anna Harris and Tom Rice","authors":"Richard A Reinhart","doi":"10.1093/jhmas/jrad052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrad052","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Stethoscope: The Making of a Medical Icon. Anna Harris and Tom Rice Get access Stethoscope: The Making of a Medical Icon Anna Harris Tom RiceLondon: Reaktion Books, 2022. 224 pp. Richard A Reinhart Richard A Reinhart East Carolina University, NC, USA reinhartr@ecu.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, jrad052, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrad052 Published: 17 August 2023","PeriodicalId":49998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136336397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Managing Medical Authority: How Doctors Compete for Status and Create Knowledge. Daniel A. Menchik","authors":"E. Shaw","doi":"10.1093/jhmas/jrad049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrad049","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43513635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Birth Certificate: An American History. Susan J. Pearson","authors":"J. Wernimont","doi":"10.1093/jhmas/jrad050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrad050","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45127194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}