@article {Pahl117, author = {J Pahl}, title = {The general practitioner and the problems of battered women.}, volume = {5}, number = {3}, pages = {117--123}, year = {1979}, doi = {10.1136/jme.5.3.117}, publisher = {Institute of Medical Ethics}, abstract = {This paper discusses the responsibility of general practitioners who are consulted by women who have been physically injured by the men with whom they live. The paper draws on a study of 50 women who were interviewed at a refuge for battered women, and considers the help which they received, or did not receive, from their general practitioners. Such women are likely to face many difficulties: it is perhaps the essence of their problem that, because it is potentially the concern of so many people, it can so easily become the concern of nobody--except of the woman herself.}, issn = {0306-6800}, URL = {https://jme.bmj.com/content/5/3/117}, eprint = {https://jme.bmj.com/content/5/3/117.full.pdf}, journal = {Journal of Medical Ethics} }