Partners in health, partners in crime : exploring the boundaries of criminology and sociology of health and illness / edited by Stefan Timmermans and Jonathan Gabe.

Malden [Mass.] : Blackwell Pub., 2003.

vii, 188 pages ; 23 cm.

"First published as Volume 24 number 5 of Sociology of health and illness."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: connecting criminology and sociology of health and illness / Stefan Timmermans and Jonathan Gabe -- Towards generous constraint: freedom and coercion in a French addiction treatment / Emilie Gomart -- Cause of death vs. the gift of life: boundary maintenance and the politics of expertise in death investigation / Stefan Timmermans -- Violence against doctors: a medical(ised) problem? / Mary Ann Elston ... [et al.] -- Emergence and implications of a mental health ethos in juvenile justice / Sarah Armstrong -- Contesting the text: Canadian media depictions of the conflation of mental illness and criminality / Riley Olstead -- Actor networks, policy networks and personality disorder / Nick Manning -- Temporarily insane: pathologising cultural difference in American criminal courts / Sita Reddy.