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  • Judging Drugs

    Key Issues in Law and Society

    Edited by Simon Flacks, Kate Seear ...
    Every day, judges determine vital questions about 'addiction', 'drugs', and the rights of those who use them. Despite the law's crucial role in handling drug 'problems', and in shaping drug practices, effects and outcomes, drug scholars have often overlooked case law. In a rapidly changing drug policy landscape, how is the law managing drug effects and harms, stigma, addiction, agency and ... Read more

    $114.79 USD

  • The Makings of a Modern Epidemic

    Endometriosis, Gender and Politics

    by Kate Seear ...
    Since its ’discovery’ some 150 years ago, thinking about endometriosis has changed. With current estimates identifying it as more common than breast and ovarian cancer, this chronic, incurable gynaecological condition has emerged as a ’modern epidemic’, distinctive in being perhaps the only global epidemic peculiar to women. This timely book addresses the scholarly neglect of endometriosis by the ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Law, Drugs and the Making of Addiction

    Just Habits

    by Kate Seear ...
    This book considers how largely accepted ‘legal truths’ about drugs and addiction are made and sustained through practices of lawyering.Lawyers play a vital and largely underappreciated role in constituting legal certainties about substances and ‘addiction’, including links between alcohol and other drugs, and phenomena such as family violence. Such practices exacerbate, sustain and stabilise ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Critical Perspectives on Coercive Interventions

    Law, Medicine and Society

    Edited by Claire Spivakovsky, Kate Seear, Adrian Carter ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
    Coercive medico-legal interventions are often employed to prevent people deemed to be unable to make competent decisions about their health, such as minors, people with mental illness, disability or problematic alcohol or other drug use, from harming themselves or others. These interventions can entail major curtailments of individuals’ liberty and bodily integrity, and may cause significant harm ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Making Disease, Making Citizens

    The Politics of Hepatitis C

    by Suzanne Fraser, Kate Seear ...
    Since the naming of hepatitis C in 1989, knowledge about the disease has grown exponentially. So too, however, has the stigma with which it is linked. Associated with injecting drug use and tainted blood scandals, hepatitis C inspires fear and blame. Making Disease, Making Citizens takes a timely look at the disease, those directly affected by it and its social and cultural implications. Drawing ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Feminist Legislation Project

    Rewriting Laws for Gender-Based Justice

    Edited by Becky Batagol, Kate Seear, Heli Askola, Jamie Walvisch ...
    In this book, leading law academics along with lawyers, activists and others demonstrate what legislation could look like if its concern was to create justice for women.Each chapter contains a short piece of legislation – proposed in order to address a contemporary legal problem from a feminist perspective. These range across criminal law (sexual offences, Indigenous women’s experiences of ... Read more

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