Citation

Chen HH. Travailler 2014; 31(1): 89-117.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014)

DOI

10.3917/trav.031.0089

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This article traces detailed history of two seminal cases that have brought Taiwan's Occupational Safety and Health establishment to recognize psychiatric disorder as an occupational disease, and work-related suicide as occupational hazard. In examining these cases, this article tries to apply a less-often used theoretical perspective of "visual culture" to discuss a broader scientific-political infrastructure in contemporary society. Using "visual culture" as a political concept is especially useful in understanding some seemingly odd norms and practices prevailing in the civil-law tradition in Taiwanese judicial system. This makes social/legal/scientific controversies play out in very different ways, comparing to those in the common-law countries in which most of the previous social studies of science-law interface have been done.

Language: fr

Keywords

Occupational health and safety; Civil-law tradition; Expert committee; Suicide at work