Cloatre, Emilie, Urquiza-Haas, Nayeli (2022) Misdirection and the Regulation of Herbalism in France and England. Science & Technology Studies, 35 (2). pp. 30-51. ISSN 2243-4690. E-ISSN 2243-4690. (doi:10.23987/sts.110353) (KAR id:94080)
PDF
Publisher pdf
Language: English DOI for this version: 10.23987/sts.110353
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
|
|
Download this file (PDF/182kB) |
![]() |
Request a format suitable for use with assistive technology e.g. a screenreader | |
PDF
Author's Accepted Manuscript
Language: English Restricted to Repository staff only
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
|
|
Contact us about this Publication
|
![]() |
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.23987/sts.110353 |
Abstract
In this paper, we propose to explore how the regulation of herbalism, in France and in England, rests on series of ‘misdirections,’ with the coexistence of law and herbalism depending on multiple magical illusions. Attempts to regulate herbalists, and the responses they invite, involve multiple sleights of hands both by the law and by herbalists. Herbalists perform misdirections to maintain an illusion of legality, even where they bend legal rules that they deem incompatible with their practice. But far from being the only, or even the most effective, tricksters, herbalists are only one set of performers in a more complex layering of legal illusions. The regulatory and legal infrastructure itself relies on misdirections enacted through everyday legal procedures that trick the general public into believing that the law is ‘acting’ to protect vulnerable consumers from dangerous healers and their medicines, while the effects of its actions may be to tolerate or indeed produce zones of illegal, or ‘barely legal,’ practices. At the same time, this performance is enabled by playing a disappearing act, in which the knowledge of herbalists, and the demands of their users, are disappeared behind the screen of apparent legal protection. Drawing attention away from competing claims to knowledge, and towards its protective intervention, the legal system thereby embeds misdirections of its own kind.
Item Type: | Article |
---|---|
DOI/Identification number: | 10.23987/sts.110353 |
Additional information: | This research was funded in whole, or in part, by the Wellcome Trust [Grant number 200380/Z/15/Z]. For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission. |
Uncontrolled keywords: | Herbalism, legalities, misdirections, science and law |
Subjects: |
H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) K Law > K Law (General) |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > Kent Law School |
Funders: | Wellcome Trust (https://ror.org/029chgv08) |
Depositing User: | Nayeli Urquiza |
Date Deposited: | 20 Apr 2022 09:30 UTC |
Last Modified: | 11 Jan 2024 11:24 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/94080 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
- Link to SensusAccess
- Export to:
- RefWorks
- EPrints3 XML
- BibTeX
- CSV
- Depositors only (login required):