Social law and Medical law

Property rights and efforts to curb state appropriation of private properties for public purposes have always held high status on the political agenda of the US and many other nations that feature a corporate capitalist economic system.

The Courts of Genocide focuses on the judicial response to the genocide in Rwanda in order to address the search for justice following mass atrocities.

From the very first negotiations of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights half a century ago to the present day, socio-economic rights have often been regarded as less enforceable than civil and political rights.

The sexual abuse of children is an area of increasing concern to social services agencies, lawmakers, and the general public.

Duties to Care is the first empirically grounded, conceptually nuanced, socio-legal examination of caring for a person with dementia.

Drawing on diverse theoretical and textual sources, The Gender of Suicide presents a critical study of the ways in which contemporary society understands suicide, exploring suicide across a range of key expert bodies of knowledge.

This internationally authored textbook demystifies the complexities that health systems pose in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

Restorative justice is the policy of eschewing traditional punishments in favour of group counselling involving both victims and perpetrators.

This book offers an impressive collection of contributions on the epistemology of international biolaw and its applications, both in the legal and ethical fields.

The criminalisation of healthcare malpractice has become a highly topical and somewhat controversial question in recent years.

Cybercrimes are often viewed as technical offenses that require technical solutions, such as antivirus programs or automated intrusion detection tools.

Children make up half of the world's refugees and over 40 per cent of the world's asylum seekers.

Through a comprehensive analysis of legislative and organisational changes and interviews with all the key players, The Honest Politician's Guide to Prisons and Probation provides an authoritative account of the crisis which has gradually engulfed the prison and probation services since 1991.

2009 wurde die UN-Behindertenrechtskonvention zur gleichberechtigten Teilhabe an der Gesellschaft verabschiedet.

This volume reviews and takes stock of legal ethics, at a time when the legal profession globally is experiencing considerable change and challenges, through a re-evaluation of writings that are in some way foundational to the field.

This book exposes the myriad of victims of wrongful conviction by going beyond the innocent person who has been wrongfully incarcerated to include the numerous indirect victims who suffer collaterally.

This book is about the regulation of corporations that use bribery in international commerce to win or maintain overseas business contracts and interests.

The competition for limited health care resources is intensifying.

Ausdruck der Selbstverwaltungsautonomie der gesetzlichen Krankenkassen ist der Vergütungskodex als Maßstab für die Standards guter Unternehmensführung und des dazu gehörigen Versorgungsmanagements in diesem gesundheitspolitisch so wichtigen Bereich.

Jewish copyright law is a rich body of jurisprudence that developed in parallel with modern copyright laws and the book privileges that preceded them.

This book discusses the multifaceted concept of disability in the context of India.

David Bonner presents an historical and contemporary legal analysis of UK governmental use of executive measures, rather than criminal process, to deal with national security threats.

Understanding legal rules not as determinants of behavior but as points of reference for conduct, this volume considers the ways in which rules are invoked, referred to, interpreted, put forward or blurred.

CLINICAL RESEARCH AND THE LAW The legal implications of conducting clinical research and trials are becoming more complex.

This book advances a novel justification for the idea of "e;public reason"e;: citizens within diverse societies can realize the ideal of shared political autonomy, despite their adherence to different religious and philosophical views, by deciding fundamental political questions with "e;public reasons.

A Casebook of Mental Capacity in US Legislation: Assessment and Legal Commentary employs an applied and accessible approach to the assessment of mental capacity.

The statutory duty of public service ombudsmen (PSO) is to investigate claims of injustice caused by maladministration in the provision of public services.

Life care planning is an advanced collaborative case management specialty practice focused on assessing, evaluating, coordinating, consulting, planning for, and monitoring necessary services for individuals with complex medical care needs over their lifetime.

This book presents a radical, but compelling, argument that liberal democracies must be able accommodate violent protest.

Change and development are going on all around us.

The conventional interpretation of safety, known as Safety-I, denotes a condition where as little as possible goes wrong, and the focus of practical efforts in management or analysis is on the occurrence of unacceptable outcomes and on how to reduce their number to an acceptable level, ideally zero.

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

Ärztliche Wahlleistungen werden durch den Chefarzt erbracht, der im Falle des direkten Liquidationsrechts selbst in vertragliche Beziehungen zum Patienten tritt.

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

Injuries involving the spine are the most common compensation claims in the United States.

In the mid 1980s, there was a crisis in the availability, affordability, and adequacy of liability insurance in the United States and Canada.

Interactional Justice explores how defence lawyers accomplish their role in interaction with others and highlights the ways in which they do loyalty work - constructing and conveying loyalty in emotionally and interactionally constraining situations.

Capital punishment, serial killings, war, terrorism, abortion, honour killings, euthanasia, suicide bombings, war, and genocide: all involve the taking of life.

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

Leitfaden und Kommentar in einem BandIn diesem Buch finden Sie für Nordrhein-Westfalenalle Arten der Unterbringung in den Grundzügen erläutert sowieumfassende Kommentierungen zu allen Paragrafen des PsychKG NRW.

"e;With misinformation and disinformation everywhere, a book that provides facts without an agenda is a welcome resource for public, academic, and consumer health collections.

An anesthesiologist chips a patient's tooth during a difficult intubation.

This book introduces a new conceptual framework for impunity within state crime theory and uses Turkish state criminality against Kurds between 1990 and 2000 as a case study.

Over the past two decades or so, legal literature has devoted much attention to various human rights issues at both the national and international levels.

Australia is now the only major Anglophone country that has not adopted a Bill of Rights.

This book analyzes in detail how and why people become involved in long-firm (planned bankruptcy) fraud, the similarities and differences between long-firm fraud and other crimes, the links between bankruptcy fraudsters and other professional and organized criminals, the techniques that fraudsters use, and the social and commercial relationships that exist within the operational world of the long-firm fraudster.

This reference text discusses integrated approaches to improve the objectives of additive manufacturing in medical application.

David Bonner presents an historical and contemporary legal analysis of UK governmental use of executive measures, rather than criminal process, to deal with national security threats.

Transforming Residential Interventions: Practical Strategies and Future Directions captures the emerging changes, exciting innovations, and creative policies and practices informing ground-breaking residential programs.