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Osiris, Volume 36, Volume 36 - Therapeutic Properties: Global Medical Cultures, Knowledge, and Law (Paperback)
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Osiris, Volume 36, Volume 36 - Therapeutic Properties: Global Medical Cultures, Knowledge, and Law (Paperback)
Series: Osiris
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This volume of Osiris takes as its point of departure a simple
premise: we have yet to fully flesh out the complex historical
interplay between medicine and law across the globe. Therapeutic
Properties takes an inventive look at the issue, presenting welcome
insights on the worldwide ascendancy of biomedicine, the
persistence of nonofficial and unorthodox approaches to healing,
and the legal contexts that have served to shape these dynamics.
The contributions draw upon source material from the Americas,
Africa, Western Europe, the Caribbean, and Asia to trace the
influence of penal and civil codes, courts and constitutions, and
patents and intellectual properties on not only health practices
but also the very foundations of state-sanctioned medicine. The
authors explore, too, how institutions of global governance,
including those underpinning empires and trade, have historically
created feedback loops that enabled laws and regulatory regimes to
spread, amplifying their effects and standardizing approaches to
diseases, drugs, professions, personhood, and well-being along the
way. Highlighting the payoff of interdisciplinary and transnational
analyses, this volume adroitly teases apart how different actors
fought to write the rules of global health, rendering certain
approaches to life and death irrelevant and invisible, others
pathological and punishable by law, and others still, normal and
natural.
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