Tarryn Phillips

Law, Environmental Illness and Medical Uncertainty

The Contested Governance of Health

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Law, Environmental Illness and Medical Uncertainty addresses what happens in the institutions of law and medicine during periods of scientific uncertainty. The book paints an ethnographic portrait of the medico-legal system and its struggle to deal with a globally contested, environmental illness. Law, Environmental Illness and Medical Uncertainty thus provides a nuanced ethnographic analysis of law, medicine and their interaction in the contested governance of health.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780415828567
• ISBN-10: 0415828562
• Artikelnr.: 38028110

Autorenporträt

Tarryn Phillips is an anthropologist and lecturer in Legal Studies at La Trobe University. Her interests lie in social justice and inequality. She researches how medicine and the law manage uncertainty, define and punish deviance and interact with their socio-cultural surroundings

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introducing the Disease of Uncertainty
Chapter 2: Knowledge and Power at the Medico-Legal Interface
Chapter 3: Risk Entrepreneurialism: The Social Construction of Toxicity and Disease
Chapter 4: The Medico-Legal Illness Narratives
Chapter 5: Medical
Legal and Insurance Reasoning in the Governance of Uncertainty
Chapter 6: The Deviance of Sympathetic Experts
Chapter 7: Non-legal Governance and Epistemological Possibilities
Chapter 8: Neoliberalism
Scepticism and Toxic Knowledge
Conclusion: Environmental Illness and The Role of the Law