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

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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Autor principal: Sarat, Austin
Otros Autores: Witt, John Fabian, Suk, Jeannie, Render, Meredith M., Meyer, Linda Ross, Keating, Gregory, Hobbs, Steven, Fair, Brian K., Durham, Alan L., Caruth, Cathy, Carodine, Montre D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a Acknowledgments; Introduction: Pain and Suffering as Facts of Legal Life -- Austin Sarat; 1. Suffering the Loss of Suffering: How Law Shapes and Occludes Pain -- Linda Ross Meyer; Commentary: Taming Suffering -- Meredith M. Render; 2. The Ambiguous Standing of Suffering in Negligence Law -- Gregory C. Keating; Commentary: Emotional Distress and the Victim's Perspective -- Alan L. Durham; 3. Two Conceptions of Suffering in War -- John Fabian Witt; Commentary: Personal Reflections on Professor John Fabian Witt's "Two Conceptions of Suffering in War" -- Stephen H. Hobbs. 
505 0 |a 4. Disappearing History: Scenes of Trauma in the Theater of Human Rights -- Cathy CaruthCommentary: A Record but No Truth? Recording and Re-recording Trauma in the Real-Life Struggle for Civil Rights -- Montre D. Carodine; 5. Laws of Trauma -- Jeannie Suk; Commentary: Knowing the Suffering of Others: A Commentary on Jeannie Suk's "Laws of Trauma" -- Bryan K. Fair; Contributors; Index. 
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