The Clinic and the Court Law, Medicine and Anthropology [Hardcover]

Where do law and medicine converge and diverge in their responses to and understandings of harm and suffering?What are the points of convergence and contradiction between law and medicine as they seek to understand and respond to harm and suffering? Using empirical case studies from Europe, the Americas and Africa, this book brings together leading medical and legal anthropologists to explore this question.What are the points of convergence and contradiction between law and medicine as they seek to understand and respond to harm and suffering? Using empirical case studies from Europe, the Americas and Africa, this book brings together leading medical and legal anthropologists to explore this question.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.1. Introduction Tobias Kelly, Ian Harper and Akshay Khanna; 2. Keeping magical harm invisible: public health, witchcraft and the law in Kyela, Tanzania Rebecca Marsland; 3. Non-human suffering: a humanitarian project Miriam Ticktin; 4. The causes of torture: law, medicine and the assessment of suffering in British asylum claims Tobias Kelly; 5. Trespass, crime, and insanity: the social life of categories Lydie Fialov?; 6. Local justice in the allocation of medical certificates during French asylum procedures: from protocols to face-to-face interactions Estelle d'Halluin; 7. Contentious roommates? Spatial constructions of the therapeutic-evidential spectrum in medico-legal work Gethin Rees; 8. The juridical hospital: claiming the right to pharmaceuticals in Brazilian courlC,