The clinic and the court : law, medicine and anthropology / edited by Ian Harper, Tobias Kelly, Akshay Khanna.
2015
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Title
The clinic and the court : law, medicine and anthropology / edited by Ian Harper, Tobias Kelly, Akshay Khanna.
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Call Number
K3601 .C55 2015
ISBN
9781107076242 (hardback)
1107076242 (hardback)
1107076242 (hardback)
Description
viii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)902659965
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Silver Fund
Table of Contents
Contributing authors
vii
Acknowledgements
viii
Introduction / Akshay Khanna
1
pt. ONE
RECOGNISING HARM AND SUFFERING
1.
Keeping magical harm invisible: public health, witchcraft and the law in Kyela, Tanzania / Rebecca Marsland
27
2.
Non-human suffering: a humanitarian project / Miriam Ticktin
49
3.
The causes of torture: law, medicine and the assessment of suffering in British asylum claims / Tobias Kelly
72
4.
Trespass, crime and insanity: the social life of categories / Lydie Fialova
96
5.
Local justice in the allocation of medical certificates during French asylum procedures: from protocols to face-to-face interactions / Estelle D'Halluin
117
6.
Contentious Roommates? Spatial constructions of the therapeutic-evidential spectrum in medicolegal work / Gethin Rees
141
pt. TWO
UNDERSTANDING AND ALLOCATING REMEDY
7.
The juridical hospital: claiming the right to pharmaceuticals in Brazilian courts / Joao Biehl
163
8.
Courts and the control of TB: quarantine, travel and the question of adherence / Ian Harper
197
9.
Dying to go to court: demanding a legal remedy to end-of-life uncertainty / Naomi Richards
214
10.
Rehabilitation of paedophiles at the intersection of law and therapy / John Borneman
239
11.
A republic of remedies: psychosocial interventions in post-conflict Guatemala / Henrik Ronsbo
265
Index
296