Research Handbook on Socio-Legal Studies of Medicine and Health

Edited by Marie-Andrée Jacob, University of Leeds, UK and Anna Kirkland, University of Michigan, US

Contents:

Preface
Linda Mulcahy

1. Introduction

Part I Beyond Healthcare
2. Trapped in limbo: effects of a medical perspective on the education of children with disabilities
P. Arcidiácono and L. Barrera

3. Mental disorders and work
V. De Greef

4. Challenging capacity: Shifting paradigms of intellectual disability across law, medicine and society
R. Harding

5. Genetic Ancestry Tests: Materializing Race and Indigeneity Across Law, Medicine, and Society
J.A. Hamilton

Part II Ways In Through Terrains
6. Work, facts, and the textual organization of psychiatric involuntary psychiatric admission: Methodological insights from institutional ethnography
A. Doll

7. Provincializing the clitoris
J. Edwards and M. Thomson

8. The Bearable Lightness of Relationality: Actor-Network-Theory as a Mode of Comparative Law
C.W.-L. Ho

Part III Ways In Through Models
9. A multi-field logics approach to theorizing relationships between healthcare and criminal justice
E. Chiarello and C. Morrill

10. Law and technology in healthcare organizations
E. Brennan and M.C. Suchman

11. What role for the state in global health law? A nodal governance perspective from Kenya
J. Harrington

12. Substantive Effectiveness, Women’s Health and the Limits of International Human Rights Law
I.O. Iyioha

Part IV The Meeting Point of Injury
13. Thinking forensically: Law, medicine and the nomos of sexual violence
H.R. Hlavka and S. Mulla

14. Proof, probability and the plaintiff: epistemological challenges in the medico-legal field
T. Phillips

15. The normative work of victims of medical injuries
J. Barbot and N. Dodier

16. Bare death: femicide, forensics and the necropolitics of the corpse
R. Singh and D. Moore

17. The (non)denial of torture, human rights and medical expertise
B. Can

Part V Ethical pluralisms
18. Doctors and global health security: What role for ethics and regulation?
A.-M. Farrell

19. Ethics as a form of regulation in relation to data and bodily materials
K. Hoeyer

20. Regulating at the boundaries of healthcare: the case of alternative and traditional medicine
E. Cloatre

21. Biomedical collective labour: politics, sovereign subjects, and empowerment in biobank research
V. Karavas, Vagias

Part VI Health as Pretext
22. Justice, power and intersectionality: beyond psychiatry, the social issue in question
E. Bernheim

23. Gun violence and mental health: Myths and strategies for socio-legal research
J.L. Piemonte and J. Metzl

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

Index