Prevention through Scientific Knowledge, Peer Review, and Experience

After operating G.W. Graphics for more than 20 years, CEO Glenn Whaley founded G.W. Medical Publishing in 1992 with the purpose of working to prevent child abuse. After publishing the seminal 1st edition of Child Maltreatment in 1994, the publishing mission expanded to include educational and multimedia materials addressing interpersonal violence, sexual assault, and the exploitation of children.

G.W. Medical Publishing is known for publishing leading clinical research for professionals in health care, law enforcement, criminal justice, and social services, in addition to educational materials for law enforcement training, nursing students, and mandated reporters of child abuse.

G.W. Medical Publishing is based in St. Louis, Missouri, where it operates a distribution center and its main office containing editorial, graphic design, and production staff.


G.W. Medical uses premier national and international experts on child abuse as the lead authors of its titles. Dozens of experts contribute to each project to expand its scope, professionally and geographically. Titles are developed organically, never with a formula, to create a timely publication with integrity that is relevant and highly useful to its audience.


G.W. Medical maintains the highest book publishing standards while employing the rigorous peer review process frequently reserved for serialized journals. Our staff includes nationally recognized editors, and every process is overseen and double-checked by our in-house editing team, each contributor, and the lead author.


G.W. Medical produces handsome hardbound editions on acid-free paper. The books are casebound in Skivertex and are Smyth-sewn so they will always lie flat when opened.

Two-volume sets are accompanied by condensed quick-references that are spiral-bound and color-coded for easy use in the field.

G.W. Medical also produces perfect-bound paperback editions of certain titles for affordability and use as textbooks.

We set all of our publications in Garamond with a maximum column width of 28 picas for exceptional readability. For our hardbound editions, we use an 8-1/2"x 11" trim size to facilitate large reproductions of high-resolution photography for our color atlases.

Each photograph is individually color corrected for the specific printing press, and we strive to print all of our books exclusively on MAN Roland four-color presses to ensure consistency and quality.

All books are individually shrink-wrapped, and two-volume sets are shipped in complimentary slipcases.