Trauma and memory
Subtitle: reading, healing, and making law
By: edited by Austin Sarat, Nadav Davidovitch, and Michal Alberstein.
Contributors: Sarat, Austin.; Davidovitch, Nadav.; Alberstein, Michal.
Series: Cultural sitings
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804754057
Subjects: Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Social aspects; Psychic traume -- Social aspects; Collective memory; Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic -- psychology; Cultural Characteristics; Memory; Social Identification; Truth Disclosure; Violence -- legislation & jurisprudence; Violence -- psychology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Trauma and memory: between individual and collective experiences / Austin Sarat, Nadav Davidovitch, Michal Alberstein; title: Posttraumatic stress disorder of the virtual kind: trauma and resilience in post-9/11 America / Allan Young; title: Female trauma / Ariella Azoulay; title: The trauma of al-Nakba: collective memory and the rise of Palestinian national identity / Issam Nassar; title: Trauma image: the elephant experience / Roei Amit; title: Trauma and justice: the moral grammar of trauma discourse from Wilhelmine Germany to post-apartheid South Africa / José Brunner; title: Public health, law, and traumatic collective experiences: the case of mass ringworm irradiations / Nadav Davidovitch and Avital Margalit; title: "Illegality," mass deportation, and the threat of violent arrest: structural violence and social suffering in the lives of undocumented migrant workers in Israel / Sarah S. Willen; title: Trauma, memory, and euthanasia at the Nuremberg medical trial, 1946-1947 / Etienne Lepicard; title: Trauma or responsibility?: memories and historiographies of Nazi psychiatry in postwar Germany / Volker Roelcke; title: Trauma, retribution, and forgiveness: should war criminals go free? / Daniel Statman; title: The secrets of mediation and trauma in contemporary film: a search from the perspective of restorative justice / Michal Alberstein; title: Healing stories in law and literature / Shulamit Almog.