Clinic and the Court - Law, Medicine and Anthropology

Where do law and medicine converge and diverge in their responses to and understandings of harm and suffering?

List of contents

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 João 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.

About the author

Ian Harper is a trained medical practitioner and social anthropologist, working at the University of Edinburgh.Tobias Kelly teaches social anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, where his research interests include human rights, political and legal anthropology and modern British cultural history.Akshay Khanna is a research fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.

Summary

What are the points of convergence and contradiction between law and medicine as they seek to understand and respond to harm and suffering? Using empirical case studies from Europe, the Americas and Africa, this book brings together leading medical and legal anthropologists to explore this question.

Product details

• Authors: Ian (University of Edinburgh) Kelly Harper, Ian Kelly Harper
• Assisted by: Ian Harper (Editor), Harper Ian (Editor), Tobias Kelly (Editor), Kelly Tobias (Editor), Akshay Khanna (Editor), Khanna Akshay (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2015
• EAN: 9781107076242
• ISBN: 978-1-107-07624-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society; Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law; Law, LAW / Health, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Ethics & moral philosophy, comparative law, Medical & healthcare law, Medical Sociology, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Medical and healthcare law, Law and society, sociology of law