When Law And Medicine Meet A Cultural View

Author : Lola Romanucci-Ross,Laurence R. Tancredi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781402027574

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When Law and Medicine Meet: A Cultural View by Lola Romanucci-Ross,Laurence R. Tancredi Pdf

What happens when two systems, law and medicine, are joined in the arena of the court? This work deals with the structure and the premises of two diverse discourse models; the approach is anthropological. Several chapters are preponderantly based on legal research, addressing cases requiring testimony by expert witnesses on recent technologies used in the laboratories of medical scientists. Descriptions of other societies and cultures consider the identical problems of rights, privileges, and duties, and provide perspectives to cultural self-knowledge. This volume can be used as a text for courses taught in medical schools and law schools. It will be of particular interest to students taking courses in health science, public health, medical anthropology, forensic anthropology, psychology, sociology, public justice, behavioral sciences, forensic psychiatry, legal anthropology, social welfare, as well as courses on research models.

Author : Tarryn Phillips
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781134081271

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Law, Environmental Illness and Medical Uncertainty by Tarryn Phillips Pdf

We’ve seen it before, with asbestos-related disease, leukaemia clusters and lung cancer caused by cigarettes. There tends to be a lag between the emergence of environmental risks and chemical injuries, and their recognition and therapeutic treatment by medicine and the law. Law, Environmental Illness and Medical Uncertainty examines how our society governs new health concerns as they emerge, and the barriers that face new and uncertain theories seeking recognition in the law. In this book, Tarryn Phillips focuses her investigation on the struggle over the controversial condition multiple chemical sensitivities, or MCS (also known as environmental illness). Presenting nine case studies where workers sought compensation for MCS from their multinational employers, she captures a nuanced portrait of their embittered, unequal battles over the scientific, legal and insurance paradigms for understanding toxic risk, environmental illness and the regulation of industry. It draws on three years of fieldwork in Australia, including interview data with lay people and sympathetic and sceptical experts, participant observation in the courtroom and textual analysis of official reports. The book gives a unique, ethnographic insight into the governance of risk and uncertainty within a neoliberal economy, medico-scientific controversies and courtroom dramas. It highlights how a skeptical approach towards emergent environmental concerns is encouraged within the current regime, and decision-makers face disincentives for taking a sympathetic approach. Compellingly written and easy to read, it should appeal widely to interested lay people, and students and scholars of science and technology studies, medical anthropology, sociology of health and illness, and critical legal studies.

Author : Matjaž Zwitter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783030007195

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Medical Ethics in Clinical Practice by Matjaž Zwitter Pdf

This book discusses medicine from an ethical perspective, whereas books on medical ethics more commonly present ethics from a bio-medical standpoint. The book is divided into 23 chapters. The introductory chapters present some basic concepts of medical ethics, such as the relation between the legal system and ethics, ethical documents, ethical theories, and ethical analysis. The following chapters address issues of importance in all fields of medicine: respecting autonomy, communication, relations within a healthcare team, professional malpractice, limited resources, and the portrait of a physician. In turn, the third part of the book focuses on ethical aspects in a broad range of medical activities – preventive medicine, human reproduction, genetics, pediatrics, intensive care, palliative medicine, clinical research, unproven methods in diagnostics and treatment, and the role of physicians who aren’t directly responsible for patient care. The last part presents students’ seminars with case stories. The book offers a valuable resource for physicians of all specialties, students of medicine, professionals, and students from other fields devoted to human health, journalists, and general readers with an interest in medicine.

Author : George A. De Vos,Takeyuki Tsuda,Lola Romanucci-Ross
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759114227

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Ethnic Identity by George A. De Vos,Takeyuki Tsuda,Lola Romanucci-Ross Pdf

In this thoroughly revised fourth edition, with ten new chapters, the editors provide thought-provoking discussions on the importance of ethnicity in different cultural and social contexts. The authors focus especially on changing ethnic and national identities, on migration and ethnic minorities, on ethnic ascription versus self-definitions, and on shifting ethnic identities and political control. The international group of scholars examines ethnic identities, conflicts and accommodations around the globe, in Africa (including Zaire and South Africa), Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Macedonia, the Netherlands, the United States, Thailand, and the former Yugoslavia. It will serve as an excellent text for courses in race & ethnic relations, and anthropology and ethnic studies.

Author : Godwin Eli Kwadzo Dzah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781009354035

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Sustainable Development, International Law, and a Turn to African Legal Cosmologies by Godwin Eli Kwadzo Dzah Pdf

This original book analyses and reimagines the concept of sustainable development in international law from a non-Western legal perspective. Built upon the intersection of law, politics, and history in the context of Africa, its peoples and their experiences, customary law and other legal cosmologies, this ground-breaking study applies a critical legal analysis to Africa's interaction with conceptualising and operationalising sustainable development. It proposes a turn to non-Western legal normativity as the foundational principle for reimagining sustainable development in international law. It highlights eco-legal philosophies and principles in remaking sustainable development where ecological integrity assumes a central focus in the reimagined conceptualisation and operationalisation of sustainable development. While this pioneering book highlights Africa as its analytical pivot, its arguments and proposals are useful beyond Africa. Connecting global discourses on nature, the environment, rights and development, Godwin Eli Kwadzo Dzah illuminates our current thinking on sustainable development in international law.

Author : David N. Weisstub,Guillermo Díaz Pintos
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402058417

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Autonomy and Human Rights in Health Care by David N. Weisstub,Guillermo Díaz Pintos Pdf

This book offers a group of essays published in memory of David Thomasma, one of the leading humanists in the field of bioethics during the twentieth century. The authors represent many different countries and disciplines throughout the globe. The volume deals with the pressing issue of how to ground a universal bioethics in the context of the conflicted world of combative cultures and perspectives.

Author : Sanford Silverburg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429979347

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International Law by Sanford Silverburg Pdf

Featuring original contributions from well-established scholars and emerging stars in law and politics, this cutting-edge reader provides students with a succinct overview of the key issues facing international law today. The authors range from political science and law school instructors to professional researchers and lawyers in private practice, and they offer diverse, multinational perspectives on traditional and emergent issues in the practice and study of international law. Topics include R2P (Responsibility to Protect) and universal jurisdiction, noterritorial subjects of international law, international political economics (IPE), the International Court of Justice (ICJ), international humanitarian law (IHL), the environment, political violence and terrorism, and post-colonialism. A concluding section on international political interaction covers a wide range of issues that link international politics to international law. Offering the most inclusive and contemporary body of material available, International Law: Contemporary Issues and Future Developments is an essential resource for courses on politics and international law.

Author : Michela Betta
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781402046193

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The Moral, Social, and Commercial Imperatives of Genetic Testing and Screening by Michela Betta Pdf

In the past people were classified as being healthy or sick. With genetic testing and screening, adults might be healthy, predisposed to an illness, probably at risk, at risk, or carriers of certain risks. Genetic testing and screening hits another dramatic note when cells and embryos are tested and subsequently altered to hit targets of perfection. This insightful book combines theory and social practice, drawing on a range of disciplines and presenting contrasting viewpoints.

Author : John Foot
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781784784164

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The Man Who Closed the Asylums by John Foot Pdf

When the wind of the 1960s blew through the world of psychiatry In 1961, when Franco Basaglia arrived outside the grim walls of the Gorizia asylum, on the Italian border with Yugoslavia, it was a place of horror, a Bedlam for the mentally sick and excluded, redolent of Basaglia’s own wartime experience inside a fascist gaol. Patients were frequently restrained for long periods, and therapy was largely a matter of electric and insulin shocks. The corridors stank, and for many of the interned the doors were locked for life. This was a concentration camp, not a hospital. Basaglia, the new Director, was expected to practise all the skills of oppression in which he had been schooled, but he would have none of this. The place had to be closed down by opening it up from the inside, bringing freedom and democracy to the patients, the nurses and the psychiatrists working in that “total institution.” Inspired by the writings of authors such as Primo Levi, R.D. Laing, Erving Goffman, Michel Foucault and Frantz Fanon, and the practices of experimental therapeutic communities in the UK, Basaglia’s seminal work as a psychiatrist and campaigner in Gorizia, Parma and Trieste fed into and substantially contributed to the national and international movement of 1968. In 1978 a law was passed (the “Basaglia law”) which sanctioned the closure of the entire Italian asylum system. The first comprehensive study of this revolutionary approach to mental health care, The Man Who Closed the Asylums is a gripping account of one of the most influential movements in twentieth-century psychiatry, which helped to transform the way we see mental illness. Basaglia’s work saved countless people from a miserable existence, and his legacy persists, as an object lesson in the struggle against the brutality and ignorance that the establishment peddles to the public as common sense.

Author : Sharon E. Sytsma
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402043147

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Ethics and Intersex by Sharon E. Sytsma Pdf

This collection of 21 articles is designed to serve as a state-of-the art reference book for intersexuals, their parents, health care professionals, ethics committee members, and anyone interested in problems associated with intersexuality. It fills an important need because of its uniqueness as an interdisciplinary effort, bringing together not just urologists and endocrinologists, but gynecologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, lawyers, theologians, gender theorists, medical historians, and philosophers. Most contributors are well-known experts on intersexuality in their respective fields. The book is also unique in that it is also an international effort, including authors from England, the Netherlands, Germany, Australia, India, Canada and the United States. The book begins with introductory chapters on the etiology of intersex conditions, conceptual clarification, legal issues, and reflections about the inherent characteristics of medical care that have led up to the issues we face today and explain the resistance to change in traditional practices. Researchers provide recent data on gender identity, surgical outcomes, and appropriate clinical care. Issues never having been addressed are introduced. The significance of intersexuality for Christianity and for philosophical concerns with authenticity add further depth to the collection. The final chapters deal with future possibilities in the treatment of intersex and for intersex advocacy.

Author : Fritz Allhoff
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402069123

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Physicians at War by Fritz Allhoff Pdf

Recently, there has been a tremendous interest in the ethical issues that confront physicians in times of war, as well as some of the uses of physicians during wars. This book presents a theoretical apparatus which underpins those debates, namely by casting physicians as being faced with dual-loyalties during times of war. While this theoretical apparatus has been developed in other contexts, it has not been specifically brought to bear on the ethical conflicts that wars bring.

Author : Bärbel Hüsing,Lutz Jäncke,Brigitte Tag
Publisher : vdf Hochschulverlag AG
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Brain
ISBN : 9783728130655

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Impact Assessment of Neuroimaging by Bärbel Hüsing,Lutz Jäncke,Brigitte Tag Pdf

Author : Laurence Tancredi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521860016

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Hardwired Behavior by Laurence Tancredi Pdf

This book explores the impact of neuroscience research over the past 20 or more years on brain function as it affects moral decisions. It sets out the historical framework of the transition from 'mentalism' to 'physicalism', shows how the physical brain works in moral decisions and then examines three broad areas of moral decision-making - the brain in 'bad' acts, the brain in decisions involving sexual relations, and the brain in money decision-making.

Author : George P. Smith
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402031489

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The Christian Religion and Biotechnology by George P. Smith Pdf

Religion is a dominant force in the lives of many Americans. It animates, challenges, directs and shapes, as well, the legal, political, and scientific agendas of the new Age of Biotechnology. In a very real way, religion, biomedical technology and law are - epistemologically - different. Yet, they are equal vectors of force in defining reality and approaching an understanding of it. Indeed, all three share a synergetic relationship, for they seek to understand and improve the human condition. This book strikes a rich balance between thorough analysis (in the body), anchored in sound references to religion, law and medical scientific analysis, and a strong scholarly direction in the end notes. It presents new insights into the decision-making processes of the new Age of Biotechnology and shows how religion, law and medical science interact in shaping, directing and informing the political processes. This volume will be of interest to both scholars and practitioners in the fields of religion and theology, philosophy, ethics, (family) law, science, medicine, political science and public policy, and gender studies. It will serve as a reference source and can be used in graduate and undergraduate courses in law, medicine and religion.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Medicine
ISBN : NWU:35558005171273

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Journal of the American Medical Association by Anonim Pdf