Community Health Practitioners and Child Sexual Abuse in the Family, 1970s-2010s

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-80051-1
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 516 g

Reihe: Genders and Sexualities in History

This open access book is an innovative history of community health practitioners’ responses to the seemingly intractable problem of men (and on rare occasions, women) sexually abusing children within the private family home. It is situated within a social history of the development of British community-based health professions in the last decades of the twentieth century. Drawing on archival research and newly gathered in-depth oral history interviews, the monograph argues that expectations placed upon community-based doctors, nurses and mental health staff since the 1980s in relation to predicting and preventing the sexual abuse of children by men they know are incongruous. Beneath a surface acquiescence to the need to protect children from such abuse or to intervene early lie cultural, social and structural barriers that prevent its fulfilment. The book is a first in specifically interrogating the recent history of the role of community health practitioners within the modern 'child protection workforce', and contributes to growing scholarship on the history of emotions in the medical professions.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beecher, Ruth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Oral History (Zeitzeugen)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Silenced Voices, Invisible Bodies: Survivor / Practitioner Encounters.- Chapter 3. ‘Bring it out from the shadows.’ Encouraging Health Visitors and Family Doctors to Respond.- Chapter 4. ‘Colonising the Field’: Feminism vs Psychiatry.- Chapter 5. ‘Turn to the colour plates.’ Training Before and After Cleveland.- Chapter 6. ‘Seeing it everywhere’ or Oblivious to It. Clinical Child Psychology and Child Sexual Abuse in the Family.- Chapter 7. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Ruth Beecher is Senior Research Fellow in Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.