Citation

Warshaw C. Gender Soc. 1989; 3(4): 506-517.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/089124389003004008

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Analysis of records of women at risk for abuse showed that though information about abuse was present, emergency room physicians rarely utilized it. The doctor-patient interaction tended to obscure rather than elucidate knowledge of abuse. Medicine's epistemologic model of care reconstructs abusive relationships through a medical encounter in which what is most significant is not seen. Nurses are less affected by the model but are under institutional constraints that lead to similar outcomes.