Trauma and Memory - Reading, Healing, and Making Law

Zusatztext "At its heart! Trauma and Memory makes one crucial argument: collective memory! whether conceived of as trauma or! simply! 'history!' fundamentally takes work As a whole! this volume is a provocative examination of violence! suffering! and reconciliation! and will be of interest to those who are concerned with their interconnected nature! and are open to the analysis of such issues from multiple disciplinary perspectives." Informationen zum Autor Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science and Five College Fortieth Anniversary Professor at Amherst College. Nadav Davidovitch, MD, MPH, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in the Division of Public Health, Ben Gurion University, Israel. Michal Alberstein, SJD, LLB, is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Bar Ilan University, Israel. Klappentext The book explores the social construction of different dimensions of trauma in law and medicine. Zusammenfassung The book explores the social construction of different dimensions of trauma in law and medicine.

Product details

• Authors: Austin Davidovitch Sarat
• Assisted by: Michal Alberstein (Editor), Nadav Davidovitch (Editor), Austin Sarat (Editor)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.01.2008
• EAN: 9780804754057
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-5405-7
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Cultural Sitings
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General