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THE CLINIC AND THE COURT Law and medicine can be caught in a tight embrace. They both play acentralroleinthepoliticsofharm,makingdecisionsregardingwhat countsasinjuryandwhatmightbethemostsuitableformsofredressor remedy.Butwheredolawandmedicine converge anddivergeintheir responses to, and understandings of, harm and suffering? Using empir- ical case studies from Europe, the Americas and Africa, The Clinic and the Court brings together leading medical and legal anthropologists to explorethisquestion. ian harperisatrainedmedicalpractitionerandsocialanthropologist, workingattheUniversityofEdinburgh. tobias kelly teaches social anthropology at the University of Edin- burgh,wherehisresearchinterestsincludehumanrights,politicaland legalanthropologyandmodernBritishculturalhistory. akshay khanna is a research fellow at the Institute of Development Studies,UniversityofSussex. CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN LAW AND SOCIETY Cambridge Studies in Law and Society aims to publish the best scholarly workonlegaldiscourseandpracticeinitssocialandinstitutionalcon- texts,combiningtheoreticalinsightsandempiricalresearch. The fields that it covers are: studies of law in action; the sociology of law; the anthropology of law; cultural studies of law, including the roleoflegaldiscoursesinsocialformations;lawandeconomics;lawand politics;andstudiesofgovernance.Thebooksconsiderallformsoflegal discourseacrosssocieties,ratherthanbeinglimitedtolawyers’discourses alone. The series editors come from a range of disciplines: academic law; socio-legalstudies;sociology;andanthropology.Allhavebeenactively involvedinteachingandwritingaboutlawincontext. Serieseditors ChrisArupMonashUniversity,Victoria SallyEngleMerryNewYorkUniversity SusanSilbeyMassachusettsInstituteofTechnology Alistofbooksintheseriescanbefoundatthebackofthisbook. THE CLINIC AND THE COURT Law, Medicine and Anthropology Ian Harper UniversityofEdinburgh Tobias Kelly UniversityofEdinburgh Akshay Khanna InstituteofDevelopmentStudies UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learningandresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107076242 (cid:2)C CambridgeUniversityPress2015 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2015 AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationdata Theclinicandthecourt:law,medicineandanthropology/editedbyIanHarper, TobiasKelly,AkshayKhanna. pages cm.–(Cambridgestudiesinlawandsociety) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-1-107-07624-2(hardback) 1.Medicallawsandlegislation. 2.Medicaljurisprudence. 3.Appliedanthropology. I.Harper,Ian,1962–editor. II.Kelly,Tobias,editor. III.Khanna,Akshay,editor. K3601.C55 2015 344.04(cid:3)1–dc23 2015005494 ISBN978-1-107-07624-2Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication, anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. CONTENTS Contributingauthors pagevii Acknowledgements viii Introduction 1 TobiasKelly,IanHarperandAkshayKhanna part one recognising harm and suffering 1 Keepingmagicalharminvisible:publichealth, witchcraftandthelawinKyela,Tanzania 27 RebeccaMarsland 2 Non-humansuffering:ahumanitarianproject 49 MiriamTicktin 3 Thecausesoftorture:law,medicineandthe assessmentofsufferinginBritishasylumclaims 72 TobiasKelly 4 Trespass,crimeandinsanity:thesociallifeof categories 96 LydieFialova´ 5 Localjusticeintheallocationofmedicalcertificates duringFrenchasylumprocedures:fromprotocolsto face-to-faceinteractions 117 Estelled’Halluin 6 ContentiousRoommates?Spatialconstructionsofthe therapeutic-evidentialspectruminmedicolegalwork 141 GethinRees v CONTENTS part two understanding and allocating remedy 7 Thejuridicalhospital:claimingtherightto pharmaceuticalsinBraziliancourts 163 Joa˜oBiehl 8 CourtsandthecontrolofTB:quarantine,traveland thequestionofadherence 197 IanHarper 9 Dyingtogotocourt:demandingalegalremedyto end-of-lifeuncertainty 214 NaomiRichards 10 Rehabilitationofpaedophilesattheintersectionof lawandtherapy 239 JohnBorneman 11 Arepublicofremedies:psychosocialinterventionsin post-conflictGuatemala 265 HenrikRonsbo Index 296 vi CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS Joa˜o Biehl PrincetonUniversity John Borneman PrincetonUniversity Estelle d’Halluin Universite´ deNantes,CENS Lydie Fialova´ UniversityofEdinburgh Ian Harper UniversityofEdinburgh Tobias Kelly UniversityofEdinburgh Akshay Khanna InstituteofDevelopmentStudies Rebecca Marsland UniversityofEdinburgh Gethin Rees UniversityofSouthampton Naomi Richards UniversityoftheWestofScotland Henrik Ronsbo Dignity:DanishInstituteAgainstTorture Miriam Ticktin NewSchoolforSocialResearch vii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS WewouldliketothanktheESRCfortheirgenerousassistanceinsup- portingtheoriginalworkshopuponwhichthisbookisbased.Thework- shop benefitted greatly from the participation of Aditya Bharadwaj, Sharon Cowan, Stefan Ecks, Roger Jeffery and Jonathan Spencer. We wouldespeciallyliketothankAnastassisPanagiotopoulosforensuring that the workshop ran smoothly. More recently, Lucy Lowe’s help has been essential in putting this volume together. We would also like to thankFinolaO’SullivanandRebeccaRobertsatCambridgeUniversity Pressfortheirpatienceandsupport.Joa˜oBiehl’schapterhaspreviously appearedinaslightlymodifiedformas‘TheJudicializationofBiopoli- tics:ClaimingtheRighttoPharmaceuticalsinBrazilianCourts’Amer- icanEthnologist,2013,40(3):419–436.Chapter10isbasedonaccounts inanddrawnfromJohnBorneman,2015.CruelIntentions:TheRitual RehabofChildMolesters.Chicago:UniversityofChicagoPress. viii
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