Law, environmental illness and medical uncertainty : the contested governance of health / Tarryn Phi...
Law, environmental illness and medical uncertainty : the contested governance of health / Tarryn Phi...
Law, environmental illness and medical uncertainty : the contested governance of health / Tarryn Phillips.
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G 2016/48
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Language
English
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Physical content
xiv, 201 pages ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introducing the Disease of Uncertainty -- Knowledge and Power at the Medico-Legal Interface -- Risk Entrepreneurialism : The Social Construction of Toxicity and Disease -- The Medico-Legal Illness Narratives -- Medical, Legal and Insurance Reasoning in the Governance of Uncertainty -- The Deviance o...
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England
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Summary
"Law, Environmental Illness and Medical Uncertainty addresses what happens in the institutions of law and medicine during periods of scientific uncertainty. The book paints an ethnographic portrait of the medico-legal system and its struggle to deal with a globally contested, environmental illness. More than twenty years after multiple chemical sen...
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Law, environmental illness and medical uncertainty : the contested governance of health / Tarryn Phillips.
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Notes
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Social justice.
"a GlassHouse Book"
Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of Western Australia, 2010) issued under title: Uncertainty and contestation in the medico-legal field : an ethnography of dispute over the legitimacy of multiple chemical sensitivities.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-196) and index.
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G 2016/48
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74VKzDqp7Bwd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKzDqp7Bwd
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ISBN
0415828562 (hardback)
9780415828567 (hardback)
DDC
344.94043697
MMS ID
991023338079702626
