Global estimates of homicide risk related to intimate partner violence

摘要

100 years ago, Robert Tressell, describing the foul living conditions in which labourers slept, wrote in The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists: "The majority of those who profess to be desirous of preventing and curing the disease called consumption must be either hypocrites or fools, for they ridicule the suggestion that it is necessary first to cure and prevent the poverty that compels badly clothed and half-starved human beings to sleep in such dens as this." Tressell was writing as novelist and, as novelist, he lacks Charles Dickens's sense of the ridiculous, his irony, and wit, but he captures an important debate—one that continues to this day.