Inscribed Bodies

Health Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse

Anna Luise Kirkengen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

462 Seiten

2010 | Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2001
Springer (Verlag)
978-90-481-5718-1 (ISBN)

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This book contributes to an overall understanding of the nature and the impact of sexual boundary violations. By exploring an extreme human experience, childhood sexual abuse, the present study allows an insight into a hidden, silenced, and destructive aspect of human relations. It is the first of its kind to make comprehensible both the general path from violation to sickness, and the particular logic of assault embodiment.
Due to its theoretical and methodological framework, the present study provides evidence that the embodiment of sexual violation experience is informed by situated logic and rationality. These, however, do not correspond to scientific logic and rationality. The universe of socio-culturally constituted meaning and that of scientifically constructed knowledge are shown to be incompatible. Subjectively informed violation embodiment is likely to be misinterpreted and consequently maltreated within the objectively grounded framework of current biomedical praxis.
Consequently, victims of silenced sexual violence are revictimized by medicine.

1. Approaching Life-World Experiences.- 2. Unfolding the Impact of Sexual Violations.- 3. Exploring the Medical Making of Patients.- Impressions.- Notes.- References.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.12.2010
Zusatzinfo	XII, 462 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Medizin / Pharmazie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	90-481-5718-8 / 9048157188
ISBN-13	978-90-481-5718-1 / 9789048157181
Zustand	Neuware