Structural violence and clinical medicine.
review · Level V
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 17076568.
- Also identified by PMC identifier 1621099.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
- The licence permits redistribution, so the abstract is shown in full and the full text is available from the publisher.
Abstract
Structural violence refers to the social structures that put people in harm's way. Farmer and colleagues describe the impact of social violence upon people living with HIV in the US and Rwanda.
Medical subject headings
- Clinical Medicine
- Ethics, Institutional
- Violence