The second installment in our 2024-2025 Doody’s Special Topics List focuses on human trafficking and domestic violence. Understanding these topics is crucial for healthcare professionals, particularly because victims of both often go unseen. These issues are rooted in the exploitation and control of vulnerable individuals, especially women and children. More often than not, both human trafficking and domestic violence occur behind closed doors, making it difficult to recognize victims. It may even be complicated for healthcare professionals to recognize the signs if they are hidden beneath layers of physical or psychological symptoms. This underscores the importance of developing a keen sense of how these abuses manifest, along with knowledge of appropriate and timely interventions, with the ultimate goal of breaking the cycle of violence. 

It is our hope that this list of books will help librarians curate the necessary resources to serve those goals. These titles will contribute to expanding the conversation on the impact of human trafficking and domestic violence and hopefully provide the awareness and knowledge necessary to tackle these issues around the world. 

This Doody’s Special Topics Lists comprises 35 titles across 16 publishers. The prices for these titles range from $14.99 to $230, with an average cost of $87.53. Doody’s Core Titles features numerous well-reviewed titles from this DSTL, including Health and Slavery: A Healthcare Providers Guide to Modern Day Slavery and Human Trafficking, Fiander, Lasonder (Springer, 2024), and Essential Health Care Services Addressing Intimate Partner Violence (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2024). 

Doody’s Review Service subscribers can access the list by clicking  here and logging in.  Doody’s Core Titles customers can view the list by clicking here to log in. Readers may also be able to access the list through one of our licensing partners: EBSCO, GOBI, Matthews, ProQuest, or Login Canada. For help getting access, please contact Customer Service. Stay tuned for the next issue of Doody’s Special Topics Lists, which is due to be released in April.