Social law and Medical law

This book explores the phenomenon of data - big and small - in the contemporary digital, informatic and legal-bureaucratic context.

It has been said that how a society treats its least well-off members speaks volumes about its humanity.

The Medicines Act 1968 together with its delegated legislation comprehensively controls the manufacture, packaging, labelling, distribution and promotion of medicines for both human and animal use in the United Kingdom.

Minderjährige werden heute gesellschaftlich und legislativ als Persönlichkeiten mit eigenen Rechten begriffen.

Originally published in 1998, Sexual Harassment in Higher Education addresses the problem of sexual harassment on college campuses.

During the last decade in particular the levels of critical engagement with the challenges posed for privacy by the new technologies have been on the rise.

Annually, the government commits significant expenditure to a type of public contracts which are known as Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) or the Private Finance Initiative (PFI).

Cosmopolitan Justice and its Discontents pursues a reflection upon the institutional orders designed to ensure respect for the rule of law, human rights, and social justice.

The second edition of this popular handbook has been thoroughly updated by the original team of experts and some new contributors, to provide current best practice guidance on the key legal information issues for every type of service.

One of the first to provide a socio-legal comparative history of under-studied or ignored Jewish attempts in the 1930s "e;Anglosphere"e; to counter the rise in fascist and Nazi antisemitism, this book examines the ways in which Jewish individuals and organized communal bodies in the mid-to-late 1930s sought to counter this increasing antisemitic violence, physical and verbal, by using the law against their fascist and Nazi attackers.

The Paranormal, the new ebook series from F+W Media International Ltd, resurrecting rare titles, classic publications and out-of-print texts, as well as new ebook titles on the supernatural - other-worldly books for the digital age.

This book traces the emergence and transformations of asbestos compensation to explore the wider issue of to what extent legal systems have converged in the era of globalization.

In mapping out the field of human rights for those studying and researching within both humanities and social science disciplines, the Handbook of Human Rights not only provides a solid foundation for the reader who wants to learn the basic parameters of the field, but also promotes new thinking and frameworks for the study of human rights in the twenty-first century.

The formerly established medically-based idea of disability, with its charity-based approach to treatment and services, is being replaced by a human rights-based approach in which people with impairments are no longer considered medical problems, totally dependent on the beneficence of non-impaired people in society, but have fundamental rights to support, inclusion, and participation.

A rich collection of interdisciplinary essays, this book explores the question: what is to be found at the intersection of the sensorium and law's empire?

This book draws upon nearly seven decades of first-hand experiences from the ground to understand social exclusion, and movements and efforts for social justice in India.

The main objective of the second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Critical Criminology is twofold: (1) to provide original chapters that cover contemporary critical criminological theoretical offerings generated over the past five years and (2) to provide chapters on important new substantive topics that are currently being studied and theorized by progressive criminologists.

Mental health law is a rapidly evolving area of practice and research, with growing global dimensions.

The book is intended to be about the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC 2006), about seafarers' security measures available before MLC 2006 and after its adoption.

The Data Protection and Medical Research in Europe: PRIVIREAL series represents the results of this EC-funded project examining the implementation of Directive 95/46/EC on data protection in relation to medical research and the role of ethics committees in European countries.

Violence at the Intersection: The Interlocking Impact of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class on Risk and Resilience builds upon and expands recent scholarship on the intersectionality of race, ethnicity, gender/gender identity, and class and their multiplicative effects on violent offending and victimization.

Drawing on original empirical research from Singapore and Hong Kong, Gendered Labour, Everyday Security and Migration interrogates women migrant domestic workers' experiences of work and workplace exploitation.

A Nobel Prize-winning economist tells the remarkable story of how the world has grown healthier, wealthier, but also more unequal over the past two and half centuriesThe world is a better place than it used to be.

This book covers topical subjects within the field of death investigation, where changes in practice have recently occurred.

This book examines how science fiction informs the legal imagination of technological futures.

This volume presents articles which focus on the ethical evaluation of performance-enhancing technologies in sport.

This book explores situations in which public opinion presents itself as an obstacle to the protection and promotion of human rights.

This book examines the role of law in regulating and influencing the lived experiences of posted workers in Europe.

Whether you're new to higher education, coming to legal study for the first time or just wondering what Medical Law is all about, Beginning Medical Law is the ideal introduction to help you hit the ground running.

The importance of simulation in education, specifically in legal subjects, is here discussed and explored within this innovative collection.

This collection adds to the critical transitional justice scholarship that calls for "e;transitional justice from below"e; and that makes visible the complex and oftentimes troubled entanglements between justice endeavours, locality, and memory-making.

Taking up the study of legal education in distinctly biopolitical terms, this book provides a critical and political analysis of resistance in the law school.

Although law and science have interacted for centuries, today their interactions pose enormous challenges.

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.

A concise review of pharmacy law -- ideal for coursework and MPJE(R) exam prep!

This book describes and assesses an emerging threat to states' territorial control and sovereignty: the hostile control of companies that carry out privatized aspects of sovereign authority.

This book reframes the study of multicide (that is, serial and mass murder) to use objective measures, and aims to expand our understanding of multicide offending through descriptive and inferential statistical analyses of different homicide patterns of the offenders.

Transparency in the regulation of water utilities is essential in order to ensure quality and fairness.

What role can resources that go beyond text play in the development of moral education in law schools and law firms?

This title was first published n 2000: The most recent developments in occupational health and safety regulation in the UK's offshore oil industry represent a departure from traditional legal forms.

The role of capital punishment in America has been criticised by those for and against the death penalty, by the judiciary, academics, the media and by prison personnel.

This book explores the contentious topic of women's rights in Muslim-majority countries, with a specific focus on Iran and the Iranian women's movement from 1906 to the present.

This book explores the increasing concern over the extent to which those suffering from forced cross-border displacement as a result of environmental change are protected under international human rights law.

The partial defence of provocation is one of the most controversial doctrines within the criminal law.

Manuela Sixt untersucht das grundsätzliche Spannungsverhältnis, in dem Whistleblowing steht, anhand der Dimensionen Macht, Geheimnis und Information.

This book critically examines the colonial dimensions of restorative justice through the lens of justice policy reform in Jamaica.