Research Catalog

Title

Doctors who rape : malpractice and misogyny / Pauline Trumpi ; with a foreword by Melita M. Biese.

Author

Trumpi, Pauline, 1939-

Publication

Rochester, Vermont : Schenkman Books, c1997.

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Details

Description

xvi, 324 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Medical personnel and patient > United States
• Physicians > Sexual behavior > United States
• Physicians > United States > Sexual behavior
• Rape > United States
• Sexually abused patients > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-309) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Victim: My Personal Holocaust -- 2. The Rapist -- 3. Understanding the Rape Victim -- 4. Factors Affecting the Rape Outcome -- 5. Rape: The Crime of Opportunity -- 6. Legal Aspects of Rape -- 7. The Failure of the Law -- 8. Prohibitions Against Practitioner-Patient Sex -- 9. The Abusive Practitioner and the Law -- 10. Transference, Fiduciary Duty, and Consent -- 11. Insurance Coverage -- 12. The Statute of Limitations -- 13. Privacy of the Victim: Problems and Prescriptions -- 14. Civil Action versus Criminal Action -- 15. Damages and Insurance Companies -- 16. Pretrial Discovery and Confidentiality -- 17. Plea-Bargaining -- 18. The Law, the System, and Politics -- 19. Professional Help for the Victim -- 20. Expert Witnesses for the Victim -- 21. Mandatory Reporting -- 22. Obtaining Data on Therapist Sex Abuse -- 23. Characteristics of Abusive Practitioners -- 24. Characteristics of the Victim -- 25. Examining Options -- 26. Specific Civil Cases.

ISBN

0870471082 (cloth)

LCCN

^^^97005625^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library