(Re)thinking Violence in Health Care Settings
A Critical Approach

Drawing together the latest research from Australia, Canada, the UK, and the US, this title engages with the work of critical theorists such as Bourdieu, Butler, Foucault, Latour, and Zizek, amongst others, to address the issue of violence and theorise its workings in creative and controversial ways.

This comprehensive volume explores various forms of violence in health care settings. Using a broad range of critical approaches in the field of anthropology, cultural studies, gender studies, political philosophy and sociology, it examines violence following three definite yet interrelated streams: institutional and managerial violence against health care workers or patients; horizontal violence amongst health care providers and finally, patients' violence towards health care providers. Drawing together the latest research from Australia, Canada, the UK, and the US, "(Re)Thinking Violence in Health Care Settings" engages with the work of critical theorists such as Bourdieu, Butler, Foucault, Latour, and Zizek, amongst others, to address the issue of violence and theorise its workings in creative and controversial ways. As such, it will be of interest to sociologists and anthropologists with research expertise in health, medicine, violence and organisations, as well as to health care professionals.

Foreword, Dave Holmes
Introduction, Dave Holmes, Trudy Rudge, Amelie Perron and Isabelle St Pierre
Part I Institutional and Managerial Violence: A critical reflection on the use of behaviour modification programs in forensic psychiatry settings, Dave Holmes and Stuart J. Murray
The violence of tolerance in a multicultural workplace examples from nursing, Trudy Rudge, Virginia Mapedzahama, Sandra West and Amelie Perron
Changing discourses of blame in nursing and healthcare, Hannah Cooke
Hospital policies regarding violence in the workplace: a discourse analysis, Penny Powers
Exploring violence in a forensic hospital: a theoretical exploration, Amelie Perron and Trudy Rudge
Nurses' failure to report elder abuse in long-term care: an exploratory study, Gloria Hamel-Lauzon and Sylvie Lauzon.
Part II Horizontal Violence: Foucault and the nexus between violence and power: the context of intra/inter professional aggression, Isabelle St-Pierre
Examining nurse-to-nurse horizontal violence and nurse-to-student vertical violence through the lens of phenomenology, Sandra P. Thomas
The rise of violence in HIV/AIDS prevention campaigns: a critical discourse analysis, Marilou Gagnon and Jean Daniel Jacob
Bullying in the workplace: a qualitative study of newly licensed registered nurses, Shellie Simons and Barbara Mawn
Sexual health nursing assessments: examining the symbolic violence of intimate exposures, Patrick O'Byme and Corey Woodyatt
Bullying on the back-channels: everyday interpersonal communicative relations in telephone talk as a space for covert forms of professional manipulation, Jackie Cook and Colette Snowden.
Part III Patients' Violence: Assessment of risk and special observations in mental health practice: a comparison of forensic and non-forensic settings, Elizabeth Mason-Whitehead and Tom Mason
Policing pornography in high-secure care: the discursive construction of gendered inequality, David Mercer
'Warning, this job contains strong language and adult themes': do nurses require thick skins and broad shoulders to deal with encounters involving swearing, Teresa Stone and Margaret McMillan
Prison nursing: threats to caring, Elizabeth Walsh
Assessing the serial killer: an examination of dangerousness in criminal profiling, Cary Federman
Working in violent environments: the pitfall of integrating security imperatives into forensic psychiatry nursing, Jean Daniel Jacob
Index.