Osiris, Volume 36

Helen Tilley is associate professor of history at Northwestern University. She is the author of Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870–1950, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

• INTRODUCTIONMedical Cultures, Therapeutic Properties, and Laws in Global HistoryHelen TilleyPART 1 - REBELLIOUS SPIRITS AND MEDICAL IMAGINATIONSTranslating Spirits: Medical-Ritual Healing and Law in Brazil and the Broader Afro-Atlantic WorldPaul Christopher JohnsonPowers of Imagination and Legal Regimes aAgainst “Obeah” in the Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century British CaribbeanKate RamseyOf Jinn Theories and Germ Theories: Translating Microbes, Bacteriological Medicine, and Islamic Law in AlgeriaHannah-Louise ClarkPART 2 - CONSTITUTIVE LAWS AND UNPRECEDENTED TRADITIONSSubaltern Surgeries: Colonial Law and the Regulation of Traditional Medicines in the British Raj and BeyondProjit Bihari MukharjiThe Reinvention of an Appropriate Tradition or the Colonial Birth of Vietnamese MedicineLaurence MonnaisTraditional Medicine Goes Global: Pan-African Precedents, Cultural Decolonization, and Cold War Rights/PropertiesHelen TilleyPART 3 - BODIES OF LAW AND LAWS OF BODIESSexual Assault and the Evidential Body: Forensic Medicine and Law in Modern JapanSusan L. BurnsEnabling Restrictions: Female Sterilization, Physicians, and the Law in Costa Rica, 1960–1999María Carranza MaxeraThe Geopolitics of “Rape Kit” Protocols: Historical Problems in Translation as Humanitarian Medicine Meets International LawJaimie MorsePART 4 - REDEFINING PROPERTIES AND PATENTING POWERSPatenting Personalized Medicine: Molecules, Information, and the BodyMario Biagioli and Alain PottageThe Intellectual Property Turn in Global Health: From a Property to a Human Rights View of HealthLaura G. Pedraza-FariñaBecoming “Traditional”: A Transnational History of Neem and Biopiracy DiscourseAnna WinterbottomProperties of (Dis)Possession: Therapeutic Plants, Intellectual Property, and Questions of Justice in TanzaniaStacey LangwickPART 5 - JUDICIARY MAGIC AND LEGAL THERAPIESThe Pharmaceuticalization and Judicialization of Health: On the Interface of Medical Capitalism and Magical Legalism in BrazilJoão BiehlLegalities of Healing: Handling Alterities at the Edge of Medicine in France, 1980s to 2010sEmilie Cloatre, Nayeli Urquiza-Haas, and Michael Ashworth