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Trauma and Memory: Reading, Healing, and Making Law

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Trauma and Memory explores different dimensions of trauma, both its relationship to the social sphere and to group identity, in order to open up new approaches to trauma from a healing perspective. The book's specific focus is doubly unique: first, because of its interest in the tension between collective and individual trauma ; and second, because of its interest in the legal and medical professions . Trauma and Memory reflects the ways in which, over the last several decades, a growing interest in the social and cultural contexts of law and medicine has transformed the study of both these professions. The authors provide new readings of social and political phenomena—such as immigration, public health, gender discrimination, and transitional justice—in terms of trauma. Finally, they address the therapeutic dimensions of trauma and their relationship to reconciliation via alternative processes such as mediation, truth committees, and other new forms of justice.

Language: English

Pages: 336

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Release: January 22, 2008

ISBN: 0804754055

ISBN 13: 9780804754057

Trauma and Memory: Reading, Healing, and Making Law

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Trauma and Memory explores different dimensions of trauma, both its relationship to the social sphere and to group identity, in order to open up new approaches to trauma from a healing perspective. The book's specific focus is doubly unique: first, because of its interest in the tension between collective and individual trauma ; and second, because of its interest in the legal and medical professions . Trauma and Memory reflects the ways in which, over the last several decades, a growing interest in the social and cultural contexts of law and medicine has transformed the study of both these professions. The authors provide new readings of social and political phenomena—such as immigration, public health, gender discrimination, and transitional justice—in terms of trauma. Finally, they address the therapeutic dimensions of trauma and their relationship to reconciliation via alternative processes such as mediation, truth committees, and other new forms of justice.

Language: English

Pages: 336

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Release: January 22, 2008

ISBN: 0804754055

ISBN 13: 9780804754057

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