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

'Wide-ranging and thoughtfully curated, this collection demonstrates just how far the tentacles of healthcare and law extend into social life. Taken together, though, these chapters suggest that the epistemic reach of both law and medicine ultimately exceed their grasp, a conclusion that practitioners and scholars alike will both rue and applaud. With such provocative and carefully researched pieces, this volume is sure to foster a deep rethinking of socio-legal studies of medicine and health.--Carol A. Heimer, Northwestern University, US'Handbooks are often conceived to tie together already-established research fields. With the Research Handbook on Socio-Legal Studies of Medicine and Health, Anna Kirkland and Marie-Andreé Jacob have in fact inaugurated an important new field of study while generously acknowledging its diverse ancestries. I've always thought that STS should instead have been dubbed TLS (technoscience, law and society) whether in studies of health, climate change, migration, inequality or their interconnections. Through an empirically rich set of chapters, handbook contributors perceptively show how socio-legal problems (from femicide to alternative medicine, genetic ancestry testing and gun violence) in highly (bio)medicalized societies throughout the world are always historically and ethnographically situated. This Handbook will be of equal interest to legal scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, bioethicists, philosophers and STS scholars.'--Ayo Wahlberg, University of Copenhagen, Denmark'One of the strengths of socio-legal studies is to show how seemingly mundane and technical practices and artifacts, such as clinical protocols or bureaucratic procedures, shape social realities: how they include and exclude people, and redistribute duties and entitlements. This fantastic volume gives a flavour of the breath and diversity of this lively (inter-)discipline, and also pushes its boundaries into new topics and methodological terrains.'--Barbara Prainsack, University of Vienna, Austria

• Contents:Preface Linda Mulcahy1. IntroductionPart I Beyond Healthcare2. Trapped in limbo: effects of a medical perspective on the education of children with disabilities P. Arcidiácono and L. Barrera3. Mental disorders and workV. De Greef4. Challenging capacity: Shifting paradigms of intellectual disability across law, medicine and societyR. Harding5. Genetic Ancestry Tests: Materializing Race and Indigeneity Across Law, Medicine, and SocietyJ.A. HamiltonPart II Ways In Through Terrains6. Work, facts, and the textual organization of psychiatric involuntary psychiatric admission: Methodological insights from institutional ethnographyA. Doll7. Provincializing the clitorisJ. Edwards and M. Thomson8. The Bearable Lightness of Relationality: Actor-Network-Theory as a Mode of Comparative LawC.W.-L. HoPart III Ways In Through Models9. A multi-field logics approach to theorizing relationships between healthcare and criminal justiceE. Chiarello and C. Morrill10. Law and technology in healthcare organizationsE. Brennan and M.C. Suchman11. What role for the state in global health law? A nodal governance perspective from KenyaJ. Harrington12. Substantive Effectiveness, Women’s Health and the Limits of International Human Rights LawI.O. IyiohaPart IV The Meeting Point of Injury13. Thinking forensically: Law, medicine and the nomos of sexual violenceH.R. Hlavka and S. Mulla14. Proof, probability and the plaintiff: epistemological challenges in the medico-legal fieldT. Phillips15. The normative work of victims of medical injuriesJ. Barbot and N. Dodier16. Bare death: femicide, forensics and the necropolitics of the corpseR. Singh and D. Moore17. The (non)denial of torture, human rights and medical expertiseB. CanPart V Ethical pluralisms18. Doctors and global health security: What role for ethics and regulation?A.-M. Farrell19. Ethics as a form of regulation in relation to data and bodily materialsK. Hoeyer20. Regulating at the boundaries of healthcare: the case of alternative and traditional medicineE. Cloatre21. Biomedical collective labour: politics, sovereign subjects, and empowerment in biobank researchV. Karavas, VagiasPart VI Health as Pretext 22. Justice, power and intersectionality: beyond psychiatry, the social issue in questionE. Bernheim23. Gun violence and mental health: Myths and strategies for socio-legal researchJ.L. Piemonte and J. Metzl24. Older lesbian, gay and bisexual people: socio-legal perspectives on healthcare inequalities in later lifeS. WestwoodIndex