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This book examines health care providers experiences with screening for woman abuse at a hospital s triage unit in Eastern Ontario. Health care provider views on the utility of the Emergency Department s screening tool, the resistance to, and barriers associated with applying the tool, and associated Emergency Department protocol are explored. A feminist, woman-centered, medical-model approach guided the data collection, analysis and explanation. This study presents suggestions for maintaining an abuse screening tool, and presents areas for future research including policy implications

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Kathleen Moss is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Carleton University.

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