Law, Environmental Illness and Medical Uncertainty
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-24162-6 (ISBN)
In this book, Tarryn Phillips focuses her investigation on the struggle over the controversial condition multiple chemical sensitivities, or MCS (also known as environmental illness). Presenting nine case studies where workers sought compensation for MCS from their multinational employers, she captures a nuanced portrait of their embittered, unequal battles over the scientific, legal and insurance paradigms for understanding toxic risk, environmental illness and the regulation of industry. It draws on three years of fieldwork in Australia, including interview data with lay people and sympathetic and sceptical experts, participant observation in the courtroom and textual analysis of official reports.
The book gives a unique, ethnographic insight into the governance of risk and uncertainty within a neoliberal economy, medico-scientific controversies and courtroom dramas. It highlights how a skeptical approach towards emergent environmental concerns is encouraged within the current regime, and decision-makers face disincentives for taking a sympathetic approach. Compellingly written and easy to read, it should appeal widely to interested lay people, and students and scholars of science and technology studies, medical anthropology, sociology of health and illness, and critical legal studies.
Tarryn Phillips is an anthropologist and lecturer in Legal Studies at La Trobe University. Her interests lie in social justice and inequality. She researches how medicine and the law manage uncertainty, define and punish deviance and interact with their socio-cultural surroundings
Chapter 1: Introducing the Disease of Uncertainty, Chapter 2: Knowledge and Power at the Medico-Legal Interface, Chapter 3: Risk Entrepreneurialism: The Social Construction of Toxicity and Disease, Chapter 4: The Medico-Legal Illness Narratives, Chapter 5: Medical, Legal and Insurance Reasoning in the Governance of Uncertainty, Chapter 6: The Deviance of Sympathetic Experts, Chapter 7: Non-legal Governance and Epistemological Possibilities, Chapter 8: Neoliberalism, Scepticism and Toxic Knowledge, Conclusion: Environmental Illness and The Role of the Law
| Erscheinungsdatum | 07.01.2017 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Social Justice |
| Zusatzinfo | 3 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 453 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie |
| Medizin / Pharmazie | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-138-24162-8 / 1138241628 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-24162-6 / 9781138241626 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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