CiNii Books - Therapeutic properties : global medical cultures, knowledge and law

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- Tilley, Helen

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Therapeutic properties : global medical cultures, knowledge and law

edited by Helen Tilley

（Osiris : a research journal devoted to the history of science and its cultural influences, 36）

University of Chicago Press, c2021

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"A Publication of the History of Science Society"--At the end of the book

Includes bibliographical references and index

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This volume of Osiris takes as its point of departure a simple premise: we have yet to fully flesh out the complex historical interplay between medicine and law across the globe. Therapeutic Properties takes an inventive look at the issue, presenting welcome insights on the worldwide ascendancy of biomedicine, the persistence of nonofficial and unorthodox approaches to healing, and the legal contexts that have served to shape these dynamics. The contributions draw upon source material from the Americas, Africa, Western Europe, the Caribbean, and Asia to trace the influence of penal and civil codes, courts and constitutions, and patents and intellectual properties on not only health practices but also the very foundations of state-sanctioned medicine. The authors explore, too, how institutions of global governance, including those underpinning empires and trade, have historically created feedback loops that enabled laws and regulatory regimes to spread, amplifying their effects and standardizing approaches to diseases, drugs, professions, personhood, and well-being along the way. Highlighting the payoff of interdisciplinary and transnational analyses, this volume adroitly teases apart how different actors fought to write the rules of global health, rendering certain approaches to life and death irrelevant and invisible, others pathological and punishable by law, and others still, normal and natural.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION Medical Cultures, Therapeutic Properties, and Laws in Global History Helen Tilley PART 1 - REBELLIOUS SPIRITS AND MEDICAL IMAGINATIONS Translating Spirits: Medical-Ritual Healing and Law in Brazil and the Broader Afro-Atlantic World Paul Christopher Johnson Powers of Imagination and Legal Regimes aAgainst "Obeah" in the Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century British Caribbean Kate Ramsey Of Jinn Theories and Germ Theories: Translating Microbes, Bacteriological Medicine, and Islamic Law in Algeria Hannah-Louise Clark PART 2 - CONSTITUTIVE LAWS AND UNPRECEDENTED TRADITIONS Subaltern Surgeries: Colonial Law and the Regulation of Traditional Medicines in the British Raj and Beyond Projit Bihari Mukharji The Reinvention of an Appropriate Tradition or the Colonial Birth of Vietnamese Medicine Laurence Monnais Traditional Medicine Goes Global: Pan-African Precedents, Cultural Decolonization, and Cold War Rights/Properties Helen Tilley PART 3 - BODIES OF LAW AND LAWS OF BODIES Sexual Assault and the Evidential Body: Forensic Medicine and Law in Modern Japan Susan L. Burns Enabling Restrictions: Female Sterilization, Physicians, and the Law in Costa Rica, 1960-1999 Maria Carranza Maxera The Geopolitics of "Rape Kit" Protocols: Historical Problems in Translation as Humanitarian Medicine Meets International Law Jaimie Morse PART 4 - REDEFINING PROPERTIES AND PATENTING POWERS Patenting Personalized Medicine: Molecules, Information, and the Body Mario Biagioli and Alain Pottage The Intellectual Property Turn in Global Health: From a Property to a Human Rights View of Health Laura G. Pedraza-Farina Becoming "Traditional": A Transnational History of Neem and Biopiracy Discourse Anna Winterbottom Properties of (Dis)Possession: Therapeutic Plants, Intellectual Property, and Questions of Justice in Tanzania Stacey Langwick PART 5 - JUDICIARY MAGIC AND LEGAL THERAPIES The Pharmaceuticalization and Judicialization of Health: On the Interface of Medical Capitalism and Magical Legalism in Brazil Joao Biehl Legalities of Healing: Handling Alterities at the Edge of Medicine in France, 1980s to 2010s Emilie Cloatre, Nayeli Urquiza-Haas, and Michael Ashworth

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