Book Launch: Governing the Global Clinic HIV and the Legal Transformation of Medicine
Please join the ABF for a hybrid presentation and in-person reception celebrating the launch of Governing the Global Clinic by ABF Research Professor Carol A. Heimer. Governing the Global Clinic offers a deep examination of how new, legalistic norms affected the trajectory of global HIV care and altered the practice of medicine.
4:00 PM CT
Presentation by Carol A. Heimer
American Bar Foundation and Northwestern University
The presentation is in-person and online via Zoom
5:00 PM CT
Join us for wine and light snacks.
The reception is in-person only.
About the Book
A deep examination of how new, legalistic norms affected the trajectory of global HIV care and altered the practice of medicine.
HIV emerged in the world at a time when medicine and healthcare were undergoing two major transformations: globalization and a turn toward legally inflected, rule-based ways of doing things. It accelerated both trends. While pestilence and disease are generally considered the domain of biological sciences and medicine, social arrangements—and law in particular—are also crucial
Drawing on years of research in HIV clinics in the United States, Thailand, South Africa, and Uganda, Governing the Global Clinic examines how growing norms of legalized accountability have altered the work of healthcare systems and how the effects of legalization vary across different national contexts. Read more about Governing the Global Clinic here.
About the Author
Carol A. Heimer is a Professor of Sociology Emerita at Northwestern University and a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation. Heimer has written on risk and insurance, organization theory, the sociology of law, and the sociology of medicine. A recipient of the Ver Steeg Award for graduate teaching, she frequently teaches courses on law, medicine, and qualitative methods, with occasionally forays into topics such as the sociology of moral experience. Read more about Carol A. Heimer here.