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The Health Science Center Library is hosting the National Library of Medicine's traveling exhibition Confronting Violence: Improving Women's Lives between August 26 and October 5, 2024.
Supporting Survivors of Sexual Violence and Abuse: Approaches to Care for Health Professionals by The journal club will meet every Thursday in September to discuss articles on research related to domestic violence and health. The links to the articles are below the corresponding date. Discussions will conclude by 1:45pm. Please note: due to the closure of UF for Hurricane Helene, the final journal club has been moved to Thursday, October 3, 1pm.
The team would like to thank Dr. Lindsey King from the UF College of Public Health and Health Professions for her expertise in advising on the selected articles.
Activists and reformers in the United States have long recognized the harm of domestic violence and sought to improve the lives of women who were battered.
During the late 20th century, nurses took up the call. With passion and persistence they worked to reform a medical profession that overwhelmingly failed to acknowledge violence against women as a serious health issue. Beginning in the late 1970s, nurses were in the vanguard as they pushed the larger medical community to identify victims, adequately respond to their needs, and work towards the prevention of domestic violence. This is their story.
Speaker Biography:
Catherine O. Jacquet is the Luke V. Guarisco Distinguished Associate Professor of History at Louisiana State University where she holds a joint appointment in History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. At LSU she teaches courses in US history, women’s history, the history of sexuality, LGBTQ activism, and history of prisons. Her book The Injustices of Rape: How Activists Responded to Sexual Violence, 1950-1980 was published with the University of North Carolina Press in 2019. Her research has been published in the Journal of Women’s History and the Radical History Review. In 2016 she curated the exhibit Confronting Violence, Improving Women’s Lives at the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. The exhibit tells the story of the nurses who sought to reform the medical system and improve healthcare services for survivors of domestic violence in the late twentieth century. Her current research examines activism by prisoners and their allies against sexual violence in carceral institutions in the late 20th century.
This lecture will be accessible remotely through this link: https://ufl.zoom.us/j/91088212490?pwd=c7mMqBXSlr4IXq2kqjrbanWMWrYC3H.1
The panel will discuss domestic violence in campus, elderly, urban, and rural communities within the university and broader north Florida region, specifically with medical, legal, and community professional perspectives. Panelists include representatives from Rural Women's Health, Elder Options, Peaceful Paths, and Helping Hands Clinic with the session moderated by Lauren Solberg (Associate Professor and Program Director, Program in Bioethics, Law and Medical Professionalism, Department of Community Health & Family Medicine, UF)
At this event, clinicians will react to clips from popular medical dramas that portray healthcare professionals’ responses to domestic violence issues, evaluating their realism and describing best practice. Panelists will also discuss the impact of media depictions of domestic violence on cultural perceptions. Panelists include faculty clinicians from the University of Florida's Community Health & Family Medicine department in the College of Medicine and the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery department in the College of Dentistry.
Panelist Biographies:
Dr. Dolwick is a world-renowned Oral and Maxillofacial surgeon, and professor at the University of Florida. He was a pioneer in the development of surgical procedures for the treatment of various Temporomandibular joint disorders (TMD), and highly acute Temporomandibular joint imaging. Dr. Dolwick has served on several TMJ study committees for the American Dental Association, National Institutes for Dental Research and the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons.
Dr. Williams is an associate professor in family medicine and the current program director for the Community Health and Family Medicine residency program at the University of Florida. She provides care for patients in both the ambulatory and hospital settings while training residents to provide patient-centered and empathetic care. Dr. Williams believes family physicians should always strive to build rapport with their patients and always advocate for their wellbeing.
Peaceful Paths is the certified domestic violence center that serves survivors of domestic violence in Alachua, Bradford, and Union counties. Peaceful Paths provides a wide range of services including emergency shelter, 24-hour helpline, victim advocacy, children’s programming, economic empowerment education and support, crisis counseling and support groups, community awareness and intervention, and violence prevention programs.
The Child Advocacy Center (CAC) in Gainesville provides a child-friendly, safe and supportive environment for children who have experienced abuse and neglect. The CAC is a place where professionals – social workers, counselors, law enforcement officers, state attorneys, victim advocates, medical professionals and others – work as a team to coordinate investigations and interventions. This collaboration seeks to ensure that children are not re-victimized by the system and that they and their families are provided the support and services needed.
Reaching and restoring lives impacted by sex trafficking and sexual exploitation.
Maggie Ansell, Nursing & Consumer Health Liaison Librarian, Health Science Center Libraries Gainesville
Jennie Crumpton, Health Sciences Liaison Librarian, Health Science Center Libraries Gainesville
Jane Morgan-Daniel, Community Engagement & Health Literacy Liaison Librarian, Health Science Center Libraries Gainesville
Ariel Pomputius, Health Sciences Liaison Librarian, Health Science Center Libraries Gainesville
Courtney Pyche, Public Health Liaison Librarian, Health Science Center Libraries Gainesville
Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig, Archivist, Health Science Center Libraries Gainesville
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