When Law and Medicine Meet: A Cultural View

• Main Authors: Romanucci-Ross, Lola (Author), Tancredi, Laurence (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, 24
• Subjects: Medicine.; Political science.; Philosophy and science.; Medicine > Philosophy.; Medical ethics.; Medical laws and legislation.; Medicine & Public Health.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; Philosophy of Law.; Philosophy of Medicine.; Philosophy of Science.; Medical Law.

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 testimo...

Table of Contents:

• Primitive Yet Contemporary: Matrices of Meaning
• The Shape of Believing
• From Myth to Law
• The Romance of Science and Medicine
• The Science of Commitment
• Criminal Behavior and Brain Imaging Techno-Science
• DNA Fingerprinting
• Notes from the Trial of the Century
• Logics of Discovery, Chance, and Scientific Evidence in the Court.