Clinic and the court : law, medicine and anthropology [electronic resource] /by Akshay Khanna, Ian Harper and Tobias Kelly.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.Description: 1 online resource (305 p.)ISBN:- 9781139923286 (ebook) :
- 344.041
Table of Contents :
Part 1. Recognizing harm and suffering
Part 2. Understanding and allocating remedy
Includes Index.
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.