Social law and Medical law

This book provides a comparative analysis of the process of breach across ten different European jurisdictions by identifying and elaborating a number of key analytical themes through which the different systems can be compared and evaluated.

A 30-year-old Polish lady is admitted in labour.

The approximately two million gay and lesbian elders in the United States are an underserved and understudied population.

Developing countries have quietly constructed a network of international agreements that redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor.

Pauper policies examines how policies under the old and New Poor Laws were conceived, adopted, implemented, developed or abandoned.

This book contributes to a critical reflection of current legislative and jurisprudential developments in Non-Discrimination Law, focusing on the European Union.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

This book contributes to the literature on the change of governance in the context of its European multilevel organization.

A Different Perspective on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act provides a brief history of health insurance within the United States, offering an accessible perspective on the highly contentious Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).

"Cuando hablamos de educación es relativamente fácil apreciar la relación que en todo proceso educativo se efectúa entre los alumnos menores de edad, sus padres y los profesores y demás autoridades del colegio.

This book argues that at the core of legal philosophys principal debates there is essentially one issue judicial impartiality.

This book examines the birth of the European individual as a juridical problem, focusing on legal case dossiers from the European Court of Justice as an electrifying laboratory for the study of law and society.

This essential resource offers extensive updates on the leading Supreme Court cases impacting law enforcement in the United States, creating a must-have reference for police officers to stay up-to-date and have a strong understanding of the law and their function within it.

Why does a hospital need an ethics consultation?

In the struggle to ensure that schools receive their fair share of financial and educational resources, reformers translate policy goals into legal claims in a number of different ways.

This book is concerned with how we can make sense of the confusing landscape of individualistic explanation in international law.

Ein Europäisches Wahrnehmungsrecht entsteht.

Fourteen essays on major theoretical issues in contemporary criminal law and medical law ethics.

Parents Killing Children: Crossing the Invisible Line explores hidden forms of violence within the family.

Criminal Law for Criminologists uses theoretical and practical research to bridge the gap between 'the law in the books' (criminal law doctrine) and 'the law in action' (criminal justice process).

This title was first published in 2000: This collection of papers reviews the theory, method and policy relevance of post-war poverty research.

Providing a concise introduction to the field of occupational and environmental medicine, this book delves into what it does, how it protects workers, how it benefits employers, and how it is developing as an important field in health protection.

Analyzing the concepts of intention and causation in euthanasia, this timely new book explores a broad selection of disciplines, including criminal and medical law, medical ethics, philosophy and social policy and suggests an alternative solution to the one currently used by the courts, based on grading different categories of killing into a formalized justificatory defence.

The essays selected for this volume reflect the many paths followed to develop a new, more robust methodology (idMAPPING) for investigating privacy.

Well-being and Wellness: Psychosocial Risk Management is a companion to Health and Safety: Risk Management that describes the techniques and background knowledge for preventing injury and ill health in the workplace.

Cultural Expertise and Litigation addresses the role of social scientists as a source of expert evidence, and is a product of their experiences and observations of cases involving litigants of South Asian origin.

This book uses the concepts of vulnerability and resilience to analyze the situation of individuals and institutions in the context of the employment relationship.

Through different legal and criminological angles and perspectives, this book addresses the controversial question of whether prisoners should have the right to vote, as well as the optimal modalities for such a vote.

Migration policing experiments such as boat turn-backs and offshore refugee processing have been criticised as unlawful and have been characterised as exceptional.

The book presents the latest advances in soft electronics in biomedical engineering and its potential applications in various biomedical fields.

Bringing together cutting edge and diverse research from international and interdisciplinary perspectives, this book initiates and shapes conversations about transgender people within the criminal justice system.

This collection brings together selected articles on key areas in the field of cultural heritage rights discourse.

How should judges and legislators address challenges arising at the frontiers of biomedicine?

Law moves, whether we notice or not.

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

This book critically analyzes the state-based regime of international law, eliciting its colonial and decolonial origins and proposing a new sub-regional basis for dealing with contemporary global challenges.

There is tremendous controversy across the United States (and beyond) when a police officer uses deadly force against an unarmed citizen, but often the conversation is devoid of contextual details.

This book explores rising labor unrest in China as it integrates into the global political economy.

This volume presents an integrated collection of essays around the theme of India's failure to grapple with the big questions of human rights protections affecting marginalized minority groups in the country's recent rush to modernization.

The microneedle field has been expanding exponentially with innovative designs and various applications, thus capturing the interest of academic industry and regulatory sectors.

This book examines the contemporary production of economic value in today's financial economies.

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

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

This book explores the response of forensic psychiatry and psychology to changes over the last several decades.

Critical legal geography is practised by an increasing number of scholars in various disciplines, but it has not had the benefit of an overarching theoretical framework that might overcome its currently rather ad hoc character.