Knowing the Suffering of Others : Legal Perspectives on Pain and Its Meanings.

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In Knowing the Suffering of Others, legal scholar Austin Sarat brings together essays that address suffering as it relates to the law, highlighting the ways law imagines suffering and how pain and suffering become jurisprudential facts. From fetal imaging to end-of-life decisions, torts to internati...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sarat, Austin
Otros Autores: Carodine, Montré D., Caruth, Cathy, Durham, Alan L., Fair, Brian K., Hobbs, Steven, Keating, Gregory, Meyer, Linda Ross, Render, Meredith M., Suk, Jeannie, Witt, John Fabian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2014.
Temas:
Law > Psychological aspects.
Forensic psychiatry.
Jurisprudence.
Law.
Droit > Aspect psychologique.
Droit.
law (discipline)
LAW > Essays.
LAW > General Practice.
LAW > Jurisprudence.
LAW > Paralegals & Paralegalism.
LAW > Practical Guides.
LAW > Reference.
Law
Forensic psychiatry
Jurisprudence
Law > Psychological aspects
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Sumario:In Knowing the Suffering of Others, legal scholar Austin Sarat brings together essays that address suffering as it relates to the law, highlighting the ways law imagines suffering and how pain and suffering become jurisprudential facts. From fetal imaging to end-of-life decisions, torts to international human rights, domestic violence to torture, and the law of war to victim impact statements, the law is awash in epistemological and ethical problems associated with knowing and imagining suffering. In each of these domains we might ask: How well do legal actors perceive and u.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (264 pages)
ISBN:9780817387419
0817387412

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