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- Title
Domestic Violence---Medieval and Modern.
- Authors
Fee, Elizabeth; Brown, Theodore M.; Lazarus, Jan; Theerman, Paul
- Abstract
The article considers the medieval and modern versions of domestic violence. According to the "World Report on Violence and Health," violence by intimate partners is a worldwide problem with major public health implications. Based on a study conducted by the American Psychological Association, an estimated 4 million American women are seriously assaulted by their intimate partners during an average of 12-month period. However, the problem of domestic violence is not only rooted in the modern world. In medieval Europe, husbands had the right to physically discipline their wives, servants, and apprentices. A image of domestic violence from a 1582 print edition of the 12th-century "Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum" is presented.
- Subjects
DOMESTIC violence; INTIMATE partner violence; VIOLENCE; ABUSED women; SPOUSES' legal relationship; PUBLIC health
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 2002, Vol 92, Issue 12, p1908
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.92.12.1908