Mary de Chesnay, PhD, RN, PMH-BC, FAAN, is a psychiatric-mental health nurse and applied anthropologist with 50 years of experience as a therapist, teacher, and researcher. She maintained a private practice and held academic positions at all ranks, retiring as Professor Emerita. She left the deanship at Duquesne University to become the first holder of the Jean Bushman Chair at Seattle University and focused on vulnerable populations. She worked with about 300 survivors of child sexual abuse, including those trafficked for the sex trade. She is a well-known and respected author and book editor.

Donna Sabella, MEd, MSN, PhD, CRNP, PMHNP-BC, is a board-certified psychiatric nurse practitioner, faculty at UMass Amherst College of Nursing where she served as the Seedworks Endowed Associate Professor of Social Justice in the College of Nursing and is presently the Executive Director of Delaware's Anti- Trafficking Action Council. She was one of the first nurses to offer courses and a certificate in human trafficking at various universities. She has numerous publications and presentations on human trafficking. She also conducted groups for prostituted and trafficked women in the Philadelphia Prison System, was a co-founder and first Director for Dawn's Place, a residential treatment program for trafficked women in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is a co-founder and Associate Editor for the Journal of Human Trafficking.

Offers a comprehensive view of the nursing, medical, psychiatric, sociocultural, and economic effects

Presents an international perspective of all aspects of modern slavery

Develops evidence-based interventions with victim-to-survivor outcomes

Part I: Background and significance.- Ch. 1. Nature of the problem.- Ch. 2 The cultural context, the cultural excuse for exploitation.- Ch. 3. Violence against women as a systemic global problem.- Ch 4. Significance of problem from a cost standpoint.- Ch 5. Laws and bills.- Part II: Types- descriptions, stats, cases.- Ch 6. Sex trafficking.- Ch. 7. Sex trafficking in India and Seattle.- Ch 8. Forced Labor in the Philippines.- Ch 9. Organ trafficking.- Ch 10. Baby trafficking.- Ch 11. Child marriage and forced marriage- Obstetric fistula.- Ch 12. Child soldiers and forced marriage of girls in the camps.- Part III: Clinical Interventions.- Ch. 13. Healthcare professionals in the global fight against human trafficking.- Ch 14. Who are the victims.- Ch 15. Physical assessment and medical treatment.- Ch 16. Emergency Dept. Protocol.- Ch 17. Contraception for trafficked women along the US-Mexican border.- Ch 18. Mental health interventions sex traf.- Ch.19. Sex trafficking in India- psychiatric issues.- Ch 20. Social work interventions for sex trafficking survivors.- Part IV: Regional Resources, Programs, and Policies.- Ch 21. North America.- Ch 22. South America.- Ch [...]ope.- Ch 24. Middle East.- Ch 25. Asia including India.- Ch 26. Australia- New Zealand.- Ch 27. Africa- HT in West Africa.- Part V: Research.- Ch. 28. Forced labor.- Ch. 29. Forced marriage.- Ch 30. Sex trafficking.- Ch 31. Organ trafficking.- Ch 32. Baby trafficking.- Ch 33. Child marriage in Sri Lanka.- Ch 34. Child soldiers.