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Clinic and the court : law, medicine and anthropology / edited by Ian Harper, Tobias Kelly, Akshay Khanna.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge studies in law and societyPublication details: United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.Description: 320 pages. 228 x 152 mmISBN:
  • 9781107076242
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 344.041 HAR.C
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction Tobias Kelly, Ian Harper and Akshay Khanna; 2. Keeping magical harm invisible: public health, witchcraft and the law in Kyela, Tanzania Rebecca Marsland; 3. Non-human suffering: a humanitarian project Miriam Ticktin; 4. The causes of torture: law, medicine and the assessment of suffering in British asylum claims Tobias Kelly; 5. Trespass, crime, and insanity: the social life of categories Lydie Fialová 6. Local justice in the allocation of medical certificates during French asylum procedures: from protocols to face-to-face interactions Estelle d'Halluin; 7. Contentious roommates? Spatial constructions of the therapeutic-evidential spectrum in medico-legal work Gethin Rees; 8. The juridical hospital: claiming the right to pharmaceuticals in Brazilian courts Joäo Biehl; 9. Courts and the control of TB: quarantine, travel and the question of adherence Ian Harper; 10. Dying to go to court: demanding a legal remedy to end of life uncertainty Naomi Richards; 11. Rehabilitation of paedophiles at the intersection of law and therapy John Borneman; 12. A republic of remedies: psychosocial interventions in post-conflict Guatemala Henrik Ronsbo.
Summary: "Law and medicine can be caught in a tight embrace. They both play a central role in the politics of harm, making decisions regarding what counts as injury and what might be the most suitable forms of redress or remedy. But where do law and medicine converge and diverge in their responses to and understandings of harm and suffering? Using empirical case studies from Europe, the Americas and Africa, The Clinic and the Court brings together leading medical and legal anthropologists to explore this question"--Summary: "Law and medicine can be caught in a tight embrace. They both play a central role in the politics of harm, making decisions regarding what counts as injury and what might be the most suitable forms of redress or remedy. But where do law and medicine converge and diverge in their responses to, and understandings of, harm and suffering? Using empirical case studies from Europe, the Americas and Africa, The Clinic and the Court brings together leading medical and legal anthropologists to explore this question"--
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction Tobias Kelly, Ian Harper and Akshay Khanna; 2. Keeping magical harm invisible: public health, witchcraft and the law in Kyela, Tanzania Rebecca Marsland; 3. Non-human suffering: a humanitarian project Miriam Ticktin; 4. The causes of torture: law, medicine and the assessment of suffering in British asylum claims Tobias Kelly; 5. Trespass, crime, and insanity: the social life of categories Lydie Fialová 6. Local justice in the allocation of medical certificates during French asylum procedures: from protocols to face-to-face interactions Estelle d'Halluin; 7. Contentious roommates? Spatial constructions of the therapeutic-evidential spectrum in medico-legal work Gethin Rees; 8. The juridical hospital: claiming the right to pharmaceuticals in Brazilian courts Joäo Biehl; 9. Courts and the control of TB: quarantine, travel and the question of adherence Ian Harper; 10. Dying to go to court: demanding a legal remedy to end of life uncertainty Naomi Richards; 11. Rehabilitation of paedophiles at the intersection of law and therapy John Borneman; 12. A republic of remedies: psychosocial interventions in post-conflict Guatemala Henrik Ronsbo.

"Law and medicine can be caught in a tight embrace. They both play a central role in the politics of harm, making decisions regarding what counts as injury and what might be the most suitable forms of redress or remedy. But where do law and medicine converge and diverge in their responses to and understandings of harm and suffering? Using empirical case studies from Europe, the Americas and Africa, The Clinic and the Court brings together leading medical and legal anthropologists to explore this question"--

"Law and medicine can be caught in a tight embrace. They both play a central role in the politics of harm, making decisions regarding what counts as injury and what might be the most suitable forms of redress or remedy. But where do law and medicine converge and diverge in their responses to, and understandings of, harm and suffering? Using empirical case studies from Europe, the Americas and Africa, The Clinic and the Court brings together leading medical and legal anthropologists to explore this question"--

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