Citation

Astbury J. Int. Congr. Ser. 2006; 1287: 49-53.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.ics.2005.11.099

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Rapidly accumulating evidence indicates that gender-based violence is a risk factor for multiple physical, mental, reproductive and psychosomatic disorders affecting women. This evidence challenges traditional psychosomatic and psychoanalytic theories that women are biologically vulnerable to psychological disorder, and suggests that socially constructed vulnerabilities need to be better integrated and investigated in the biopsychosocial model of health.