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“Bodies of Evidence compellingly places the so-called rape kit at the center of scholarship on law and medicine and extends the conversation transnationally and temporally. Jaimie Morse's use of data is original and fascinating, sweeping and detailed."—Anna Kirkland, author of Health Care Civil Rights: How Discrimination Law Fails Patients
“Tracing the rape kit from its origins in 1970s emergency rooms to its present-day use in conflict zones around the globe, Morse is unflinching in examining difficult questions about its mobilization in clinical and legal spaces. Essential reading for anyone interested in the intersections of gender, medicine, law, and technology.”—Rene Almeling, author of GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health
“Bringing together the logics of inquiry in the compatible but too rarely combined interdisciplinary fields of science and technology studies and law and society, Bodies of Evidence traces the historical and international journey of a distinctive socio-legal artifact of the late twentieth century. An ambitious, groundbreaking, and ultimately successful achievement in research and analysis.”—Jonathan Simon, Lance Robbins Professor of Criminal Justice Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
"Morse thoroughly and carefully illuminates how very different parts and aspects of society had to be brought together and balanced against each other for the rape kit to come into being as the widely used artifact it is today.”—Corinna Kruse, author of The Social Life of Forensic Evidence