Clinic and the Court Law, Medicine and Anthropology

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.

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

• Assisted by: Akshay Khanna (Editor), Khanna Akshay (Editor), Harper Ian (Editor), Tobias Kelly (Editor), Kelly Tobias (Editor), Ian Harper (Editor)
• Authors: Ian Kelly Harper, Ian (University of Edinburgh) Kelly Harper
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 30.04.2015
• Subject: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law
• EAN: 9781107076242
• ISBN: 978-1-107-07624-2
• Pages: 320
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society; Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Subjects: 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