Social law and Medical law

This book explores the ways language is used by the professional legal community for the communication of its main business - the negotiation of justice - in today's globalized world.

Charitable organisations occupy a central place in society across much of the world, accounting for billions of pounds in revenue.

Medicine, Patients and the Law is a leading book in its field, aimed at practitioners and students of both law and medicine, as well as the general reader.

Das Werk stellt komprimiert und verständlich die Grundlagen des Lebensmittelrechts dar und gibt für Studenten Klausurtipps und für Praktiker Hinweise zur Lösung von Problemen im Praxisalltag.

This book leaves no stone unturned in its comprehensive examination of the complex challenges surrounding academic freedom in Africa.

This book examines the evolution of Australian unemployment law and policy across the past 100 years.

Taking the postcolonial - or, more specifically, the post-apartheid - university as its focus, the book takes the violence and the trauma of the global neoliberal hegemony as its central point of reference.

Sexual Offending and Mental Health draws together theoretical, clinical and mental health issues for the range of professionals working in the community and in-patient settings with sex offenders and those who have behaved in sexually inappropriate ways.

A Short Guide to Equality Risk analyses the concepts, theories, and issues associated with the implementation in organisations and the service environment of an Equality, Diversity, and Discrimination (EDD) Agenda.

Originally published in 2005.

Public Benefit in Charity Law examines the legal principles and practical applications of the public benefit test in charity law in the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the Republic of Ireland.

This book focuses on analysing how legal systems set the terms for interactions between human beings and plants.

This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the role played by law(s) in the British Empire.

There has been much important work done in the past two decades in America on issues of under representation based on social differences such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, and age.

AIDS and the Sexuality of Law investigates the role that HIV/AIDS has played in the legal construction of sexuality.

This work assesses the various meanings attached to calls for police reform in the public discourse on social media, providing readers with a greater appreciation of the assumptions, empirical claims, and rhetorical nuances that underpin the current dialogue about police policy.

The book provides an in-depth discussion of democratic theory questions in relation to refugee law.

This book is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of transitional justice as an unfinished agenda in Indonesia's democracy.

This groundbreaking book is the first collection to investigate the law, political science and ethical perspectives collectively in relation to the right and value of life.

This book offers a socio-legal exploration of localised consumer complaint processing and dispute resolution in the People's Republic of China – now the second largest consumer market in the world – and the experiences of both ordinary and 'professional' consumers.

This guide to the rules which regulate anti-doping in sport includes numerous case studies.

Between 1930 and the mid-1970s, several thousand Canadian-born children were adopted by families in the United States.

Locknie Hsu explores the economic and public health issues that impact upon access to medicines in Asian states.

This book takes a radical look at organizational crime and deviance through the prism of Cultural Theory derived from anthropology.

Scholars from medicine, law and related disciplines examine the ethical and legal challenges raised by AI in digital healthcare.

Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law -The Legacy of Modernism addresses the legacy of contemporary critiques of language for the concept of the rule of law.

This book investigates how humanitarians balance the laws and principles of civilian protection with the realities of contemporary warzones, where non-state armed actors assert cultural, political and religious traditions that are often at odds with official frameworks.

The law relating to general defences is one of the most important areas in the criminal law, yet the current state of the law in the United Kingdom reveals significant problems in the adoption of a consistent approach to their doctrinal and theoretical underpinnings, as exemplified by a number of recent developments in legislation and case law.

Today's increasingly sophisticated psychological and neuropsychological assessments allow for a greater understanding, and improved evaluations, in forensic psychology.

Critical Race Theory (CRT) is virtually unheard of in European scholarship, especially among legal scholars.

An invaluable quick-reference source for practitioners and professionals detailing the major concerns in forensic psychology.

This title was first published in 2001.

The contributors in this volume address the fundamental relationship between the state and its citizens, and among the people themselves.

This book addresses the impact of Covid-19 on employment relations and provides a reconstruction and a critical assessment of the measures enacted worldwide to tackle the economic and social crisis triggered by the global health emergency.

The vast majority of healthcare is provided safely and effectively.

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Indigenous peoples are increasingly making requests for the return of their ancestors' human remains and ancient indigenous deoxyribonucleic acid.

In 1978, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated the year 2000 as the "e;due date"e; for world health.

This remarkable book offers enlightening reading for everyone interested in international law, human rights, global health, public health and health promotion.

Recent social developments, such as demographic change, skill shortages and new medical technologies, have necessitated a transition in the traditional roles of health-care professions.

Criminality has accompanied social life from the outset.

This updated paperback edition contains all the very latest on the dramatic story of Crispr and the potential impact of this gene-editing technology.

In a culture obsessed with law, judgment, and violence, this book challenges Christians to remember that Jesus urged his followers to judge no one, bring harm upon no one, and follow no law save the law of altruistic love.

Labour and social security law studies have addressed the topic of the decline of the standard employment relationship mainly from the point of view of the growing number of atypical relationships.

The place of cannabis in global drug prohibition is in crisis, opening up new directions for socially engaged cannabis research.

While the 21st century bears witness to several conflicts leading to mass displacement, the conflict in Syria has crystallised the need for a solid legal framework and legal certainty.