RT Article
T1 Making Care Better in the Context of Violence: The Limits of Blame
JF Violence against women
VO 27
IS 8
SP 1028
OP 1034
A1 Swartz, Leslie
A2 Lappeman, Maura
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1759094862
AB This brief commentary is a response to the helpful responses to our article on the problem of the concept of gentle violence in obstetric care. We find ourselves in substantial agreement with our interlocutors. We suggest that naming individual actions on the part of health care personnel as violent may not be necessary for changing the behavior of these personnel and may in fact impede change. We suggest further that requiring health care personnel to accept our definitions of violence may in itself be an oppressive or epistemically violent act, probably less likely to lead to desired change than other approaches. We emphasize the need for more dialogue on victimology and the discursive complexities of trying to intervene in situations of structural violence.
K1 Structural Violence
K1 Behavior change
K1 gentle violence
K1 ethics of care
K1 obstetric violence
DO 10.1177/1077801221996468