November 2015
The digital exhibition Confronting violence: improving women’s life shows the struggle of US activists to include domestic violence within the context of health issues.
In the mid-1970s, nurses at Brigham and Women’s Hospital were on the cutting edge of identifying violence against women as a serious, and largely ignored, health care issue.
Nurses played an important role in this story. They were among the first to identify women who were battered as a population with specific health needs that were largely neglected by the medical community.
Nurses successfully began to change the medical profession as they advocated, educated, and organized nationally.
Feminist agitation spawned significant reform in law, social services, and, eventually, medicine.
Read more in HCS-Manguinhos:
Di Liscia, María Silvia. Hijos sanos y legítimos: sobre matrimonio y asistencia social en Argentina (1935-1948). Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, 2002, vol.9, p.209-232. ISSN 0104-5970
Vessuri, Hebe M. C. Enfermería de salud pública, modernización y cooperación internacional: El proyecto de la Escuela Nacional de Enfermeras de Venezuela, 1936-1950. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dic 2001, vol.8, no.3, p.507-539. ISSN 0104-5970
Moreira, Martha Cristina Nunes. A Fundação Rockefeller e a construção da identidade profissional de enfermagem no Brasil na Primeira República. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Fev 1999, vol.5, no.3, p.621-645. ISSN 0104-5970
