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Hi,

I wonder if anyone could advise me - I am analysing lifeherstories of
disabled women who have experienced domestic abuse - a consistent theme is
that participants often experience abuse by the medical profession - in that
their existing impairments have been exacerbated by neglect or inappropriate
intervention by members of the medical profession resulting in iatrogenic
impairments.

My view is that these impairments are socially produced as a consequence of
unequal social relations between the increasingly powerful med profession
within High Modernity and disabled participants.  I wonder if anyone is aware
of empirical work exploring this form of abuse, if so, would they be good
enough to advise me of it.

Similarly, many impairments are caused or exacerbated by the enactment of dv
as a consequence of socially legitimated power diffs between men and women,
and non-disabled and disabled.  Incidentally, I am looking for additional
participants to work with me in this research - I am physically disabled and
a survivor of dv - and undertaking this work at the University of Nottingham.

Please let me know if you are interested - participation may help in
assisting women who are currently experiencing dv - in that I am exploring:
1) our vulnerability to dv
2) forms of dv we experience
3) how our responses to dv may be influenced by the experience of disability
(as social and cultural exclusion) and impairment
4) how social network responses to our experiences of dv may be influenced by
our experience of disability (as social and cultural exclusion) and
impairment.
5) how participants have managed to leave abusive relationships - given the
lack of service provision for disabled women wishing to leave.

Many thanks

Pauline Magowan

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