Social law and Medical law

EU expansion has stoked fears that criminals from the East may abuse freedom of movement to exploit the benefit systems of richer states.

This handbook provides a comprehensive global survey and assessment of the law and policy relating to homelessness prevention.

Autonomy is a vital principle in medical law and ethics.

This new volume covers some of the most important and latest research trends and applications in modern biotechnology, with special attention on how modern biotechnology advances human healthcare.

The Routledge Handbook of Homicide Studies comprehensively examines the topic of homicide from a diverse collection of perspectives and backgrounds.

Advances in modern biotechnology have produced profound and far-reaching implications for the relationship between humans, animals and the environment.

Thema der vorliegenden Arbeit sind die rechtlichen Besonderheiten, die sich mit dem Ersteinsatz eines unerfahrenen Mediziners zum Schutz des Patienten stellen.

This groundbreaking book contributes to, and refocuses, public debates about the incorporation of plural approaches into the English legal system.

Many forensic pathologists and death investigators would agree that infant deaths have historically been poorly investigated.

Biobanks are promising instruments of biomedical research and of transnational medicine in particular.

From a European Perspective This book charts territory that is profoundly important, and yet rarely fully understood.

What role do transitional justice processes play in determining the gender outcomes of transitions from conflict and authoritarianism?

The concept of 'organised crime' is constructed and mobilised by a milieu of complex factors and discourses including a politics of law and order, and international insecurity, combined with the vested interests and priorities of scholars, politicians, government officials, and policing authorities.

This book argues that moral rights provisions in copyright law rest on a misunderstanding, or romanticisation, of the role of the author.

Meeting the acute need for a book determining the crucial elements of bioterrorism preparedness, this is a global perspective of the history and current concepts for bioterrorism, integrating the legal, medical, scientific and public health strategies.

The work of both socio-legal scholars and specialists working in social movements research continues to contribute to our understanding of how law relates to and informs the politics of social movements.

This book explores the theoretical contribution of Michel Foucault to the fields of criminology, law, justice and penology.

Dementia: The Basics provides the reader with a clear and compassionate introduction to dementia and an accessible guide to dealing with different parts of the dementia journey, from pre-diagnosis and diagnosis to post-diagnostic support, increasing care needs and end of life care.

This book, first published in 1983, looks at discipline in industry and shows how private justice is integrally bound up with formal law.

In this fully updated and revised new edition of his landmark study of violence in and around contemporary sport, Kevin Young offers a comprehensive sociological analysis of an issue of central importance within sport studies.

The regulation of the body provides an important concern in law, medical practice and culture.

Access to medicine is a topic of widespread interest.

Pediatric Life Care Planning and Case Management provides a comprehensive and unique reference that goes beyond the clinical discussion to include legal and financial aspects, life expectancy data, and assistive technology.

Many advocates of euthanasia consider the criminal law to be an inappropriate medium to adjudicate the profound ethical and humanitarian dilemmas associated with end of life decisions.

With religion at centre stage in conflicts worldwide, and in social, ethical and geo-political debates, this book takes a timely look at relations between law and religion.

The growth of data-collecting goods and services, such as ehealth and mhealth apps, smart watches, mobile fitness and dieting apps, electronic skin and ingestible tech, combined with recent technological developments such as increased capacity of data storage, artificial intelligence and smart algorithms, has spawned a big data revolution that has reshaped how we understand and approach health data.

Victims of crime are still marginalized in criminal law practice, even though an increasingly large number of legislatures have introduced reforms on their behalf.

This book examines the evolution and current application of the political offence exception clause to extradition in Europe.

How do ordinary people access justice?

This edited volume is a timely and insightful contribution to the growing discourses on public law in Asia.

Through a wide range of international and interdisciplinary case studies, this book develops the notion of legacy, and in particular, 'living legacy'- that is, it explores power relations in the context of time as a means to considering and challenging social injustice.

This book takes a comprehensive approach to investigate how Sharia influences and manifests in the everyday lives of young Muslims, aiming to unravel the meaning and relevance of Sharia-driven laws and practices in English-speaking Western societies.

Privatising the Public University: The Case of Law is the first full-length critical study examining the impact of the dramatic reforms that have swept through universities over the last two decades.

This book explores the ambit of the notion of persecution in international law and its relevance in the current geopolitical context, more specifically for refugee women.

This book introduces readers to the concept of parental alienation (PA), a belief system that is used with increasing frequency in judicial child custody and parenting plan decisions.

To maximise the effectiveness of their work, NHS employees need a clear understanding of the structures and systems of the organisation in which they work.

Outlining an original analysis of the political dimension of restorative justice, this book seeks both to enhance the critical comprehension of this phenomenon and to forge new tools for acting politically through restorative justice, inviting restorative justice scholars, practitioners and advocates to become a radical political movement.

Following the events of September 11, a new legal order is emerging in which the 'terrorist threat' has been used as justification to marginalise human rights.

Dieses Buch befasst sich in 24 Beiträgen mit aktuellen Fragen des Medizin- und Haftungsrechts.

As one of the 'learned' professions requiring advanced learning and high principles, law enjoys a special standing in society.

The Routledge International Handbook of Legal and Investigative Psychology explores contemporary topics in psychological science, applying them to investigative and legal procedures.

The first of a two-volume set on the Psychology of the Courtroom, Jury Psychology: Social Aspects of Trial Processes offers a definitive account of the influence of trial procedures on juror decision-making.

Understanding and Reducing Prison Violence considers both the individual and prison characteristics associated with violence perpetration and violent victimization among both prison inmates and staff.

This book explores how the bedrock institution of today's global order - sovereignty - is undergoing transformation as a result of complex interactions between power and norms, between politics and international law.

The distinction between male and female, or masculinity and femininity, has long been considered to be foundational to society and the organization of its institutions.

Explains why lawyers seeking gender progress from primary legal materials should start with the common law.