Domestic Violence—Medieval and Modern

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ID11036768
AutoresElizabeth Fee (Elizabeth Fee, Jan Lazarus, and Paul Theerman are with the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. Theodore M. Brown is with the Departments of History and of Community and Preventive Medicine at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.), Terry M Brown (0009-0003-9101-1302, United States National Library of Medicine), Theodore M Brown (Elizabeth Fee, Jan Lazarus, and Paul Theerman are with the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. Theodore M. Brown is with the Departments of History and of Community and Preventive Medicine at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.), Jan Lazarus (Elizabeth Fee, Jan Lazarus, and Paul Theerman are with the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. Theodore M. Brown is with the Departments of History and of Community and Preventive Medicine at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.), Paul Theerman (Elizabeth Fee, Jan Lazarus, and Paul Theerman are with the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. Theodore M. Brown is with the Departments of History and of Community and Preventive Medicine at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.)
Año2002
Volumen92
Número12
Páginas1908-1908
Fecha de publicación2002-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
EditorialAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.92.12.1908
PMID12453806
OpenAlexW2150242800
IdiomaEN
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Referencias citadas2

AS THE WORLD HEALTH Organization’s just-released World Report on Violence and Health makes abundantly clear, violence by intimate partners is a worldwide problem with major public health implications.1 The American Psychological Association has estimated that 4 million American women experience a serious assault by an intimate partner during an average 12-month period.2 A study of women visiting emergency rooms found that 54% had been threatened or injured by an intimate partner at some time in their lives and that 24% reported having been injured by their current partner.3 This problem is not a novelty of the modern world; its roots go back to the very foundations of so-called civil society, although the expression and extent of violence varies across periods and cultures. In medieval Europe, for example, husbands had the right to “chastise”—that is, physically discipline—their wives, servants, and apprentices, although churches and communities also brought significant pressure to bear against these widespread practices.4–6 In this image from a 1582 print edition of the 13th-century Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum (Salernitan Regimen of Health), we catch a glimpse of a domestic assault as it was frequently represented in medieval and early modern Europe.7 Here it was assumed that the matter was individual and largely private, the consequence of the hot-tempered “choleric” disposition of an angry and poorly controlled man. Until very recently, domestic violence was largely excluded from public scrutiny. These attitudes have begun to change, a process that the publication of the World Health Organization’s report should help accelerate

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