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Governing the Global Clinic: The Peril and Promise of the Legal Transformation of Medicine

On Thursday, September 18, the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future welcomed Carol Heimer, Research Professor, American Bar Foundation, and Professor Emerita, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, for a talk titled: Governing the Global Clinic: The Peril and Promise of the Legal Transformation of Medicine. Drawing on observations and interviews in five clinics in the US, Thailand, South Africa, and Uganda, and in the larger world of HIV treatment and research, Prof. Heimer examines how growing norms of legalized accountability have altered the work of healthcare systems. Although law’s aspirations may have been noble, the legalization of healthcare has brought both negatives, such as rigid compliance bureaucracies, and positives, including some rethinking of what clinic staff owe their patients and research subjects. Housed at and sponsored by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, the monthly Global Health Politics Workshop series brings together leading social scientists from the disciplines of anthropology, political science, and sociology to advance the understanding of health phenomena in a globally interconnected world.