Injury and injustice : the cultural politics of harm and redress / edited by Anne Bloom, David M. Engel, Michael McCann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Anne, editor.

Engel, David M., editor.

McCann, Michael W., 1952- editor.

Series:

Cambridge studies in law and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Personal injuries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 378 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

This book addresses some of the most difficult and important debates over injury and law now taking place in societies around the world. The essays tackle the inescapable experience of injury and its implications for social inequality in different cultural settings. Topics include the tension between physical and reputational injuries, the construction of human injuries versus injuries to non-human life, virtual injuries, the normalization and infliction of injuries on vulnerable victims, the question of reparations for slavery, and the paradoxical degradation of victims through legal actions meant to compensate them for their disabilities. Authors include social theorists, social scientists and legal scholars, and the subject matter extends to the Middle East and Asia, as well as North America.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Feb 2018).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781108332934

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.