Research at the medico-legal borderland: perspectives on HIV and criminal law...
In recent years, the criminalization of HIV transmission, exposure and non-disclosure has become a hot topic among those working within the global AIDS milieu. Social scientists have become...
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Osagie Obasogie’s Blinded By Sight by Eram Alam
Blinded By Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind by Osagie K. Obasogie Stanford Law Books, Stanford University Press, 2014, 269 pp. Osagie Obasogie’s Blinded by Sight is driven by a...
View ArticleHeart by Ian Whitmarsh
Recently the Minister of Health of Trinidad and Tobago explained the problem of chronic disease in the country: “The population do not listen to the message we are sending out – love yourself, eat...
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Book Forum––Sameena Mulla’s “The Violence of Care” by Todd Meyers
From rape as a tool of terror in situations of war and armed-conflict, to the largely unchecked epidemic of sexual assault on and off college campuses, “rape” finds its way into our collective...
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On January 17th 2014, Catherine Eagles, a federal judge for the Middle District of North Carolina, struck down as unconstitutional a portion of North Carolina’s 2011 Women’s Right to Know Act. The...
View ArticleLast will and predicament? by Bob Simpson
It was recently reported by the Guardian that there has been drop in organ donation rates in the UK.[i] It was also reported at about the same time that a woman successfully argued in the courts that...
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From fish lives to fish law: learning to see Indigenous legal orders in...
“The necessity of respecting game is still widely acknowledged by Inuit. The awareness, that the continuity of society depends on the maintenance of correct relationships with animals and the land, is...
View ArticleThe Banality of Lost Guns: Producing Null Data Sets by Kristin Doughty
On the evening of June 6, 2016, a man with a concealed carry permit misplaced his loaded 9mm Kahr handgun in the middle of a park filled with kids during the opening night of my town’s recreational...
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Exclusion and gatekeeping in psychiatric-legal borderland: Keeping the...
The concept of the “medico-legal borderland” commonly refers to the discursive intersection of medical and legal knowledges in the constitution of a new knowledge regime (McClelland, 2013). The...
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Searching, Studying and Doing Sociology in the Medico-Legal Borderlands by...
Medico-legal borderlands? What is this nebulous sounding compound concept, “medico-legal borderlands”? How has it been used by social scientists whose ethnographic studies scratch at itches in the...
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