Book Review

Violence Against Women: A Physician's Guide to Identification and Management

Authors: Elizabeth C. McCord, MS, MD

Abstract

Violence against women occurs frequently and is a sentinel event. Ten to fifteen percent, or 6 million women in the United States experience either physical or sexual assault annually, and the lifetime rate is 51% nationally, significantly higher than other developed countries. Women are far more likely to experience violence from intimates than from strangers, and it is often more severe. Sexual abuse of children is common. There are individual, interpersonal, and societal risk factors for perpetration, but most survivors of abuse do not fit a particular profile, because violence against women is a problem originating with its perpetrators.

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