Bodies of Evidence : A History of Rape Kit Protocols in US Emergency Nursing and Global Humanitarian Medicine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morse, Jaimie.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2026.

Summary:

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Bodies of Evidence disrupts popular understandings of the rape kit by examining it as a complex assemblage of practices and protocols that stands at the uneasy nexus of law and medicine. Jaimie Morse traces how this assemblage was championed as a rights project in medicine, moving from the margins to the center of health care responses to sexual violence through new clinical standards of care, first in the United States and then in global humanitarian medicine. Drawing on archival research, interviews with experts and activists, and fieldwork at international meetings, the book chronicles a novel process of legal mobilization in medicine and interrogates the existential meanings and stakes of rape kits, their associated practices, and their underlying assumptions and expectations for survivors of sexual violence.

Contents:

Front cover

Luminos page

Half title page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication page

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I - Legal Mobilization in US Emergency Medicine

Prologue to Part I

Chapter One - Nurse Activism for "Rape Kit" Protocols

Chapter Two - The Knowledge Problem of "Rape Kits" and Injury Detection Techniques

Part II - Legal Mobilization in Humanitarian Medicine

Prologue to Part II

Chapter Three - Sexual Violence as a Problem of Global Health Governance

Chapter Four - Médecins Sans Frontières Medico-Legal Certificates for Sexual Violence

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Morse, Jaimie Bodies of Evidence

ISBN:

9780520428928

OCLC:

1591604514