When Law and Medicine Meet: A Cultural View

by Lola Romanucci-Ross and Laurence R. Tancredi

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402067631
• ISBN13: 9781402067631
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"