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This book brings together a range of theoretical perspectives to consider fundamental questions of health law and the place of the body within it. Health, and more recently health law, has long been animated by discussions of particular bodies - whether they are disordered, diseased, or disabled - but each of these classificatory regimes claim some knowledge about the body. This edited collection aims to uncover and challenge the fundamental assumptions that underpin medico-legal knowledge claims about such bodies. This exploration is achieved through a mix of perspectives, but many contributors look towards embodiment as a perspective that understands bodies to be shaped by their institutional contexts. Much of this work alerts us to the idea that medical practitioners not only respond to healthcare issues, but also create them through their own understandings of ‘normality’ and ‘fixing’. Bodies, as a result, cannot be understood outside of, or as separate to, their medical and legal contexts. This compelling book pushes the possibility of new directions in health care and health justice.
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PALGRAVE SOCIO-LEGAL STUDIES
A Jurisprudence of the Body Edited by Chris Dietz · Mitchell Travis · Michael Thomson
Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
Series Editor Dave Cowan School of Law University of Bristol Bristol, UK
The Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies series is a developing series of monographs and textbooks featuring cutting edge work which, in the best tradition of socio-legal studies, reach out to a wide international audience. Editorial Board Dame Hazel Genn, University College London, UK Fiona Haines, University of Melbourne, Australia Herbert Kritzer, University of Minnesota, USA Linda Mulcahy, University of Oxford, UK Rosemary Hunter, University of Kent Carl Stychin, University of London, UK Mariana Valverde, University of Toronto, Canada Sally Wheeler, Australian National University College of Law, Australia More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14679
Chris Dietz • Mitchell Travis Michael Thomson Editors
A Jurisprudence of the Body
Editors Chris Dietz School of Law University of Leeds Leeds, UK
Mitchell Travis School of Law University of Leeds Leeds, UK
Michael Thomson Faculty of Law University of Technology Sydney Sydney, Australia School of Law University of Leeds Leeds, UK
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