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Abstract
Professionals occupy a position of esteem in society. Doctors and health professionals tend to score especially highly on public opinion surveys of trust. Sexual violence and abuse (SVA) by medical professionals towards their patients is a grave breach of that confidence. This paper uses thematic analysis of a paradigmatic case study of doctor abuse, drawn from a larger sample of semi-structured interviews conducted for an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded United Kingdom (UK) study 2015–2018 into justice and gender based violence. It explores how professional authority can both facilitate and conceal sexual coercion through building dependency; use of language and authorship of the official record; and by functional complicity and ‘data doubling’ within intra and inter-professional cultures. While there is an established literature on child sexual abuse, including in institutional contexts, this paper focuses on the lived experience of grooming and sexual violence of an adult survivor of doctor abuse.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 115093 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Social Science and Medicine |
| Volume | 305 |
| Early online date | 30 May 2022 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 30 May 2022 |
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Research Groups and Themes
- SPS Centre for Gender and Violence Research
- Perpetrator
- Sexual violence
- Justice
- Professionals
- Coercion
- Authority
- Doctors
- Administrative justice
- Criminal justice
- Gender
- gender based violence
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ERC Starting Grant: Sex, power and professionals: the nature, extent and administrative justice responses to sexual misconduct and abuse perpetrated by professionals
Mulvihill, N. (Principal Investigator), Birdsall, N. (Researcher), Yapp, E. (Researcher) & Richards, H. K. (Researcher)
1/11/23 → 31/10/28
Project: Research
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Justice, Inequality and Gender Based Violence
Hester, M. (Principal Investigator), Abrahams, H. A. (Co-Investigator), Aghtaie, N. (Co-Investigator), Bates, L. (Co-Investigator), Eisenstadt, N. (Co-Investigator), Gangoli, G. (Co-Investigator), Matolcsi, A. (Co-Investigator), Mulvihill, N. (Co-Investigator), Patsios, D. (Co-Investigator), Turner, W. (Co-Investigator), Walker, S.-J. (Co-Investigator), Williamson, E. (Co-Investigator), Robinson, A. (Co-Investigator), McPhee, D. (Co-Investigator), Rumney, P. (Co-Investigator), Williams, A. (Co-Investigator), Sterk, G. (Collaborator) & Magnusson, L. (Principal Investigator)
1/10/15 → 18/05/18
Project: Research
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