Social law and Medical law

This book addresses corporate power, global inequality and sustainability in shaping health outcomes.

A proposal for resolving tensions between professionals and society regarding tissue for transplants and research, while properly protecting donors'' interests.

This volume suggests alternative ethical frameworks and models of regulation relating to the governance of genetic information.

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

Matti Häyry asks if we should make people healthier, smarter, and longer-lived if genetic and medical advances allow it.

This book addresses corporate power, global inequality and sustainability in shaping health outcomes.

Analyses the highly controversial problems of DNA forensic technologies, providing important insights into their ethical, legal and societal dimensions.

A proposal for resolving tensions between professionals and society regarding tissue for transplants and research, while properly protecting donors'' interests.

A collection on cultural law that demonstrates efficacy of comparative, international, and indigenous law in the context of culture-related issues.

This book examines global health problems through the lens of public and international law, focusing on access to essential medicines.

A comprehensive discussion of a number of current and emerging governance issues in EU health policy.

This book is an essential text for practitioners of clinical forensic medicine and for those who take them through judicial proceedings.

Alasdair Maclean examines the ethical basis for consent to medical treatment and offers proposals for reform.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of how to attain equality in the area of disability discrimination.

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

Matti Häyry asks if we should make people healthier, smarter, and longer-lived if genetic and medical advances allow it.

This book examines the ways in which social relations condition health and the public policies that address it.

Addresses the issues faced by philanthropists seeking to engage in international charitable activities and offers alternative approaches to traditional US-based foundations.

This book addresses the response of law and quasi-legal bodies to human service failures.

This volume suggests alternative ethical frameworks and models of regulation relating to the governance of genetic information.

This book examines the ways in which social relations condition health and the public policies that address it.

An examination of legal measures which might be used to solve the problem of fragmentation of patents in genetics.

This book is an essential text for practitioners of clinical forensic medicine and for those who take them through judicial proceedings.

Alasdair Maclean examines the ethical basis for consent to medical treatment and offers proposals for reform.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of how to attain equality in the area of disability discrimination.

This book analyzes the emergence of cyber-bullying and anti-authority student expressions through the use of cell phone and Internet technologies.

Robert Meakin explores how the concept of ''charitable status'' has changed following the introduction of the Charities Act 2006.

Paul David examines the interpretation and application of the World Anti-Doping Code.

This book provides a framework for addressing important philosophical issues in psychiatry and psychopharmacology.

Focuses on the ethical, legal and social issues raised by genetic testing and therapy.

Documents experiences throughout the entire research process - from conceptualization, ethics approval, field-work, analysis, and publication.

Prado addresses the question of whether it is rational to end one''s life in order to escape devastating terminal illness.

Dr Syrett evaluates how courts may contribute to the attainment of legitimacy in healthcare rationing.

This book considers the 1996-2006 welfare laws in the United States from a feminist perspective.

Mason explores aspects of pregnancy which involve medico-legal intervention, including unwanted or undesired pregnancies.

In this book, first published in 2007, bioethics scholars examine the ethical, legal and social questions raised by human genetic databases.

This book is a wide-ranging synthesis of market developments in body tissue.

A comprehensive examination of the legal regulation of the provision of healthcare to young children in England and Wales.

Explores the various impacts of measures of EU law on national health law and policy.

Discusses the pros and cons of laws against human reproductive cloning.

This book connects medical liability to broader trends and goals in American health policy.

This book examines the ethical controversies that have surrounded the design and conduct of international medical research carried out in developing countries.

A collection of essays which focus on the relationship between judicial review and bureaucratic behaviour.

Focuses on how law produces persons and things, and develops new approaches to the question of ownership.

Medicolegal Essentials in Healthcare provides an overview of the most clinically relevant medicolegal issues for healthcare groups.

This is an account of the development of European labour and social security law as it interrelates with the evolution of market integration in the European Union.

A close study of lawyers who practise occupational safety and health law in the US.

Considers problems associated with genetic information in an age of declining welfare provision, and offers direction for future policy.

Combines legal, historical and literary approaches to marriage in Shakespeare''s time and in his plays.

This book provides cutting-edge information available on topics such as child abuse, children''s eyewitness testimony, divorce and custody, juvenile crime, and children''s rights.