Social law and Medical law

Explores how performance measurement systems shape South African court and managerial prosecutors'' understanding of accountability and their legal work practices.

Explores the emerging issues of virtual work and looks at how employers have turned to technology during the pandemic.

A unique collection of legal, religious, ethical, and political perspectives on debates surrounding biotechnology patents or ''patents on life''.

Presents the first comprehensive study of Indigenous perspectives on genetic resources, traditional knowledge, and access and benefit sharing in Canada.

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

This book offers an approach to care and support policy prioritizing gender equality, disability human rights and dignity for all.

A practical guide to reform of the regulatory environment for access to government held data for research.

This book offers an approach to care and support policy prioritizing gender equality, disability human rights and dignity for all.

Explains how and why laws against human germline modification will do more harm than good.

Rewriting Nature is a cogent, riveting interdisciplinary exploration of the law, science, and policy of emerging genome-editing technology.

Analyses the limitations of respect for autonomy and consent in human research ethics and explores alternative ethical approaches.

A survey of the regulation of human germline genome modification in eighteen countries and the emerging international standards.

This book details how, in poor communities, access to healthcare and social support is linked to punishment systems.

Analyses the relation of preventive and curative health policy and its evolution over time.

Analyses the limitations of respect for autonomy and consent in human research ethics and explores alternative ethical approaches.

A survey of the regulation of human germline genome modification in eighteen countries and the emerging international standards.

This book details how, in poor communities, access to healthcare and social support is linked to punishment systems.

Integrates research, theory, and practice in supported decision-making and describes implications for supports provision in the disability field.

Explains the ethical imperative to take seriously the potential impacts on our identities of encountering bioinformation about ourselves.

Examines the impact of increased transparency on the legal, medical, and business structures of the American health care system.

This volume studies the implications of the right to inclusive education in human rights law for disability law, policy and practice.

An in-depth critical analysis of the effects of the right to health in Brazil over the past thirty years.

Explores how performance measurement systems shape South African court and managerial prosecutors'' understanding of accountability and their legal work practices.

Explores different examples of unpunished homicides and what these tell us about the interaction of law and society.

Ameringer explains the development and current state of America''s overspecialized, uncoordinated, and fragmented healthcare industry.

This study of citizenship and migration policies in the Gulf shows how temporary residency can become a permanent citizenship status.

A collection of first-person case studies that detail serious ethical problems in medical practice and research.

Integrates research, theory, and practice in supported decision-making and describes implications for supports provision in the disability field.

This is a comprehensive comparative legal, practical and theoretical analysis of workplace inequalities experienced by workers with psychosocial disabilities.

Asks whether personalised medicine is superior to ''one-size-fits-all'' treatment.

A unique, documented case against the legalisation of ''assisted dying'', based mainly on empirical and logical ''slippery slope'' concerns.

The definitive reference guide to designing scientifically sound and ethically robust medical research, considering legal, ethical and practical issues.

Examines the impact of increased transparency on the legal, medical, and business structures of the American health care system.

Demonstrates how colleges routinely deny students fair hearings in sexual assault cases and define sexual assault in an unconstitutionally broad manner.

Demonstrates how colleges routinely deny students fair hearings in sexual assault cases and define sexual assault in an unconstitutionally broad manner.

How should the law deal with the challenges of advancing biotechnology?

This theoretical and practical guide to Mental Capacity Statute considers recent case law, medico-legal challenges and future legislation.

This theoretical and practical guide to Mental Capacity Statute considers recent case law, medico-legal challenges and future legislation.

A comprehensive review of Hong Kong''s pharmaceutical patent law that will influence debate and inform public policy.

Ameringer explains the development and current state of America''s overspecialized, uncoordinated, and fragmented healthcare industry.

Presents the first comprehensive study of Indigenous perspectives on genetic resources, traditional knowledge, and access and benefit sharing in Canada.

A collection of studies in bioethics and society that goes beyond conventional medical ethics and suggests political, socio-legal, and empirical analysis.

This book reveals the surprising impact of medicine stamp duty (1783–1941) on pharmaceutical practice and the interface of law and government.

Offering intentional parenthood as the most appropriate, flexible and just normative doctrine for resolving the various dilemmas that have surfaced in the modern era.

This book provides a ground-breaking discussion of the human right to make decisions in our own lives.

International human rights law challenges core tenets of mental health law, policy and practice.

This book discusses American and European policies surrounding deinstitutionalization and community living, including Articles 12 and 19 of the UNCRPD.

With genetic technologies advancing rapidly, Aisling de Paor examines the urgent need for an EU-level framework to regulate genetic information.

This landmark book provides the first systematic overview of key research in the sociology of constitutions.

This book presents a new view on the concept of solidarity and explains how it complements justice in health and social care.