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Knowing the Suffering of Others : Legal Perspectives on Pain and Its Meanings by Austin Sarat; Montre D. Carodine; Cathy Caruth; Alan L. Durham; Brian K. Fair; Steven Hobbs; Gregory Keating; Linda Ross Meyer; Assistant Professor Meredith M. Render J.D.; Jeannie Suk; John Fabian Witt is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Knowing the Suffering of Others : Legal Perspectives on Pain and Its Meanings about?
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 understand suffering in such varied domains of legal life? What problems of representation and interpretation bedevil efforts to grasp the suffering of others? What historical, political, literary, cultural, and/or theological resources can legal actors and citizens draw on to understand the suffering of others? In Knowing the Suffering of Others , Austin Sarat presents legal scholarship that explores these questions and puts the problem of suffering at the center of thinking about law. The contributors to this volume do not regard pain and suffering as objective facts of a universe remote from law; rather
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- Author
- Austin Sarat; Montre D. Carodine; Cathy Caruth; Alan L. Durham; Brian K. Fair; Steven Hobbs; Gregory Keating; Linda Ross Meyer; Assistant Professor Meredith M. Render J.D.; Jeannie Suk; John Fabian Witt
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780817357689
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Law, Medical
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