Discussion List for campus-based and allied personnel working to end gender-based violence on campus.

["Mahri Irvine" <>]

Hi All,

 

I thought you would be interested in this recent news item about a
publication by a doctor exposing a Canadian standardized "teaching practice"
of non-consensual pelvic exams on unconscious female surgery patients:

 

http://www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/714924

 

there is also a discussion about this at Feministing:

 

http://www.feministing.com/archives/019839.html?utm_source=feedburner
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edium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:%20Feministing%20(Feministing)>
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finally, I surfed around online and found a med student discussion board
about this. Some of the comments are very creepy, but it is nice to see that
some students realize that this sort of practice is indeed totally unethical
and should be categorized as sexual assault:

 

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?s=3366ec68af35b4cd4439afa1742
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<http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?s=3366ec68af35b4cd4439afa174
25cd88&t=153397&pp=25> &t=153397&pp=25 

 

While I know that SAPC generally focuses on issues relevant to universities,
I think that this is a very salient topic for us to be aware of, since these
teaching hospitals are part of the larger education system.

 

 

Mahri Irvine

Doctoral Student

American University

Department of Anthropology

 

"Haggard writing is by and for haggard women, those who are intractable,
willful, wanton, chaste, and, especially, those who are reluctant to yield
to wooing.... Haggard women are not man-wooed. As Furies, women in the
tradition of the Great Hags reject the curse of compromise." --Mary Daly,
1978, Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism