Objectives: This paper aims to raise questions about the institutional assistance to violence within the health field, particularly on the topic  sexual violence

Barbosa, R

Sarti, C

Suarez, M

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Violence and Gender: Marked Victims
C Sarti
R Barbosa
M Suarez
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Sarti C, Barbosa R, Suarez M. Violência e gênero: vitimas demarcadas. 
[Violence and Gender: Marked Victims.] PHYSIS: Rev. Saúde Colectiva (Rio 
de Janeiro, Brasil) 2006 julio-diciembre; 16(2): 167-183. 
Objectives: This paper aims to raise questions about the institutional assistance 
to violence within the health field, particularly on the topic "sexual violence".  
Methodology: Qualitative, ethnographic research in the municipal hospital of 
emergencies in Rio de Janeiro.  
Results: The authors, based on data from ethnographic research, characterize 
the support services as a theoretical construct based merely on social formulas 
or conventions around the meaning of violence and sexuality. They point to the 
way as caretakers identify victims and perpetrators and how this identification 
influences the actions provided.   
The authors present a case where a sexually abused man was denied 
emergency care because the service was designed exclusively for female 
victims. The authors note that in sexually violent acts, certain attributes of the 
victim are often assumed, and that there is a greater social recognition of women 
as victims, whereas in the case of an adult man as victim, doubts were raised 
about his sexuality.  
Conclusions: The authors conclude that institutions and the general public do 
not recognize the male body as a real and potential victim of sexual violence. 
They suggest that any human body, regardless of the gender or sexual 
orientation of the individual, may be subject to violence, which questions the 
universal right of health care, the basic principle of the Single System of Health 
(SUS). 
 


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