I Started Avoiding It, What's the Point?”

Intimate Partner Violence Survivors’ Stories of Medical Disenfranchisement

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12435541
AutoresShelly A Mara (0000-0002-3370-6742, North Carolina State University, autor correspondente)
Ano2025
Volume32
Fascículo6-7
Páginas1622-1636
Data de publicação2025-05-20
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoViolence Against Women (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1077-8012 • E-ISSN: 1552-8448
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/10778012251341267
PMID40390685
OpenAlexW4410518412
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas30

This study explores intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors' experiences seeking healthcare. Interviews reveal that survivors are often treated by healthcare professionals that operate under the biomedical model, which encourages providers to objectively diagnose and treat IPV-related symptoms. Providers utilize the clinical gaze to isolate specific injuries and symptoms of violence without identifying how violence affects overall health and well-being. In doing so, providers may inadvertently establish women's bodies as malfunctioning or defective, leaving survivors to feel unsupported, stigmatized, and disempowered. This paper sheds light on how IPV survivors can become disenfranchised from the healthcare system

Domestic violence · Health care · Health professionals · Medical emergency · Occupational safety and health · Poison control · Political science · Psychiatry · Suicide prevention · Elder Abuse and Neglect · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies