Interpreting Medical Findings in Sexual Contact and Abuse: A reference handbook for legal and health practitioners,1st Edition
The cadre of forensic nursing as a professional scope of nursing has recently been accepted by the Nursing Council and is now beginning to emerge, and legally in this country, such nurses are now allowed to examine sexual abuse cases, issue reports and give testimony provided they undergo an accredited training programme in sexual abuse medicine.
| ISBN: | 9781998962389 |
| Publisher: | Juta Publishers |
| Variant: | Printed |
| Author(s): | Naidoo, SR , Naidoo, S , Bugwandeen, SR and McKerrow, NH |
| Edition: | 1st Edition |
Content
PART I: LEGAL, ADMINISTRATIVE & ETHICAL ASPECTS
Chapter 1 – Legislation & offences
Chapter 2 – Responses on the management of sexual offences
Chapter 3 – Authorisation, consent & ethical issues of medical examinations
PART II: BIOLOGY OF SEXUAL CONTACT
Chapter 4 – Properties of skin and mucous membranes in injury
Chapter 5 – Physical injuries – relevant aspects
Chapter 6 – Biology of sexual function
Chapter 7 – Genital injury during sexual intercourse
Chapter 8 – Biological evidence in sexual contact
Chapter 9 – Sexually transmitted infections
PART III: CLINICAL ASPECTS
Chapter 10 – The clinical examination and its medicolegal issues
Chapter 11 – Selected aspects of the child victim of sexual abuse
Chapter 12 – Documentation and reaching clinical conclusions
Chapter 13 – Principles for medical treatment of survivors of sexual abuse
PART IV: MISCELLANEOUS
Chapter 14 – Drug-facilitated sexual assault (DFSA) and toxicology
Chapter 15 – Misconceptions around sexuality and rape
Chapter 16 – Validation of the clinical examiner
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