Body Lore and Laws: Essays on Law and the Human Body

by Simon Day Singh

Book Overview

This book, the second produced by the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group, is a collection of essays on the subject of law and the human body. As the title suggests, bodies and body parts are not only subject to regulation through formal legal processes, but also the meanings attached to particular bodies, and the significance accorded to some body parts, are aspects of
broader cultural processes. In short, bodies are subjected to both lore and laws...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841131962
• ISBN13: 9781841131962
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"