Trauma and Memory: Reading, Healing, and Making Law

This Book 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. It 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. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Part I . Introduction -- 1. Trauma And Memory: Between Individual And Collective Experiences -- Part Ii. Constitutive Trauma: Cultural Representations And Identities -- 2. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Of The Virtual Kind: Trauma And Resilience In Post-9/n America -- 3. Female Trauma -- 4. The Trauma Of Al-nakba: Collective Memory And The Rise Of Palestinian National Identity -- 5. Trauma-image: The Elephant Experience -- Part Iii. Trauma And The Professions -- 6. Trauma And Justice: The Moral Grammar Of Trauma Discourse From Wilhelmine Germany To Post-apartheid South Africa -- 7. Public Health, Law, And Traumatic Collective Experiences: The Case Of Mass Ringworm Irradiations -- 8. Illegality, Mass Deportation, And The Threat Of Violent Arrest: Structural Violence And Social Suffering In The Lives Of Undocumented Migrant Workers In Israel -- 9. Trauma, Memory, And Euthanasia At The Nuremberg Medical Trial, 1946-1947 -- 10. Trauma Or Responsibility?: Memories And Historiographies Of Nazi Psychiatry In Postwar Germany -- Part Iv. Trauma, Healing, And Forgiveness -- 11. Trauma, Retribution, And Forgiveness: Should War Criminals Go Free? -- 12. The Secrets Of Mediation And Trauma In Contemporary Film: A Search From The Perspective Of Restorative Justice -- 13. Healing Stories In Law And Literature -- Index Bibliographic Level Mode Of Issuance: Monograph Includes Bibliographical References And Index. English