Research handbook on socio-legal studies of medicine and health / edited by Marie-Andrée Jacob, Anna Kirkland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Jacob, Marie-Andrée, 1975- editor.

Series:

Research handbooks in law and society.

Research handbooks in law and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical laws and legislation.

Medical ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cheltenhamm, United Kingdom ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2020]

Summary:

"This timely Research Handbook offers significant insights into an understudied subject, bringing together a broad range of socio-legal studies of medicine to help answer complex and interdisciplinary questions about global health - a major challenge of our time."

Contents:

Enlarging and locating socio-legal studies of medicine and health / Marie-Andrée Jacob and Anna Kirkland

Part I: Beyond healthcare

Trapped in limbo : effects of a medical perspective on the education of children with disabilities / Pilar Arcidiácono and Leticia Barrera

Mental disorders and work / Vanessa De Greef

Challenging capacity : shifting paradigms of intellectual disability across law, medicine and society / Rosie Harding

Genetic ancestry tests : materializing race and indigeneity across law, medicine and society / Jennifer A. Hamilton

Part II: Ways in through terrains

Work, facts and the textual organization of involuntary psychiatric admission : insights from institutional ethnography / Agnieszka Doll

Provincializing the clitoris / Jeanette Edwards and Michael Thomson

The bearable lightness of relationality : actor-network-theory as a mode of comparative law / Calvin Wai-Loon Ho

Part III: Ways in through models

A multi-field logics approach to theorizing relationships between healthcare and criminal justice / Elizabeth Chiarello and Calvin Morrill

Law and technology in healthcare organizations / Elizabeth Brennan and Mark C. Suchman

What role for the state in global health law? : a nodal governance perspective from Kenya / John Harrington

Substantive effectiveness, women's health and the limits of international human rights law / Irehobhude O. Iyioha

Part IV: The meeting point of injury

Thinking forensically : law, medicine and the nomos of sexual violence / Heather R. Hlavka and Sameena Mulla

Proof, probability and the plaintiff : epistemological challenges in the medico-legal field / Tarryn Phillips

The normative work of victims of medical injuries / Janine Barbot and Nicolas Dodier

Bare death : femicide, forensics and the necropolitics of the corpse / Rashmee Singh and Dawn MooreII: The (non)denial of torture, human rights and medical expertise / Başak Can

Part V: Ethical pluralisms

Doctors and global health security : what role for ethics and regulation? / Anne-Maree Farrell

Ethics as a form of regulation in relation to data and bodily materials / Klaus Hoeyer

Regulating at the boundaries of healthcare : the case of alternative and traditional medicine / Emilie Cloatre

Biomedical collective labour : politics, sovereign subjects and empowerment in biobank research / Vagias Karavas

Part VI: Health as pretext

Justice, power and intersectionality : beyond psychiatry, the social issue in question / Emmanuelle Bernheim

Gun violence and mental health : myths and strategies for socio-legal research / Jennifer L. Piemonte and Jonathan M. Metzl

Older lesbian, gay and bisexual people : socio-legal perspectives on healthcare inequalities in later life / Sue Westwood.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78643-798-8

OCLC:

1156989822