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Hospital Based Rape Crisis Programmes

What can the American experience teach us?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Gill Mezey
Gill Mezey*
Affiliation:
Senior Registrar, Department of Psychiatry, The London Hospital (Whitechapel), London El (formerly Senior Registrar, Bexley Hospital, Bexley, Kent)
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The importance of rape crisis programmes in the United States is that they provide a service for rape victims that does not exist in Britain: a hospital-based service providing physical, psychological, emotional and practical help for the rape victim and which regards this work as a crucial part of health care provision.

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , February 1987 , pp. 49 - 51
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