Clinic and the Court
Subtitle: Law, Medicine and Anthropology
Publisher: University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations; Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781107076242
Subjects: Medical laws and legislation; Medical jurisprudence
Description: "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"--