Bodies of Evidence: A History of Rape Kit Protocols in US Emergency Nursing and Global Humanitarian Medicine
Author:   Jaimie Morse
Publisher:   University of California Press
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9780520428904


Pages:   236
Publication Date:   23 June 2026
Format:   Hardback
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Bodies of Evidence: A History of Rape Kit Protocols in US Emergency Nursing and Global Humanitarian Medicine


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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Bodies of Evidence disrupts popular understandings of the rape kit by examining it as a complex assemblage of practices and protocols that stands at the uneasy nexus of law and medicine. Jaimie Morse traces how this assemblage was championed as a rights project in medicine, moving from the margins to the center of health care responses to sexual violence through new clinical standards of care, first in the United States and then in global humanitarian medicine. Drawing on archival research, interviews with experts and activists, and fieldwork at international meetings, the book chronicles a novel process of legal mobilization in medicine and interrogates the existential meanings and stakes of rape kits, their associated practices, and their underlying assumptions and expectations for survivors of sexual violence.

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Author:   Jaimie Morse
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
ISBN:  

9780520428904


ISBN 10:   0520428900
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   23 June 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations     Introduction: What Is a “Rape Kit”? Part I. Legal Mobilization in US Emergency Medicine     1. Nurse Activism for “Rape Kit” Protocols     2. The Knowledge Problem of “Rape Kits” and Injury Detection Techniques Part II. Legal Mobilization in Humanitarian Medicine     3. Sexual Violence as a Problem of Global Health Governance     4. Médecins Sans Frontières Medico-Legal Certificates for Sexual Violence Conclusion: The Probative Paradox and What Can Be Done Notes Bibliography Index

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Jaimie Morse is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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