Social law and Medical law

In September 2001, the world witnessed the horrific events of 9/11.

Published in association with the Nuffield Trust This challenging and highly practical book draws on the findings from an international study designed to help practitioners and researchers understand the factors and processes that enable healthcare organisations in the United States and Europe to achieve - and sustain - high quality services for their users.

There is more to parking law than just parking penalties.

This book critiques the contemporary recourse to transparency in law and policy.

Kein Lebensmittelrecht kann gewährleisten, dass ausschließlich sichere Lebensmittel in den Verkehr gelangen.

Unsere Gesellschaft wird nicht zuletzt dank anhaltendem Wohlstand und medizinisch-technischem Fortschritt immer älter.

The Mental Capacity Act (2005) governs decision-making processes on behalf of adults who are unable to give informed consent, whether they lose mental capacity at some point in their lives due to illness or injury or where the incapacitating condition has been present since birth.

Human Rights and the Body is a response to the crisis in human rights, to the very real concern that without a secure foundation for the concept of human rights, their very existence is threatened.

E-voting is the use of electronic means in the casting of the vote at political elections or referendums.

Die Zukunft der Wissensgesellschaft ist in aller Munde.

This book includes a collection of studies focused on engagements of religious minorities with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

The right to social security, found in international law and in the constitutions of many nations, contributes to the alleviation of poverty globally.

This book presents a critical chronology of the modern slavery survivor journey in the UK, from intervention by the authorities to long-term recovery.

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Health Law addresses some of the most critical issues facing scholars, legislators, and judges today: how to protect against threats to public health that can quickly cross national borders, how to ensure access to affordable health care, and how to regulate the pharmaceutical industry, among many others.

The Regulation of Animal Health and Welfare draws on the research of scientists, lawyers, economists and political scientists to address the current and future regulatory problems posed by the issues of animal health and disease.

Match-fixing represents a greater potential threat to the integrity of sport than doping.

This book highlights application of nanomaterials for drug delivery, therapy, and engineering.

Charitable organisations occupy a central place in society across much of the world, accounting for billions of pounds in revenue.

Ethics for Global Mental Health examines the limitations of current normative approaches to global mental health (GMH) work and argues for a values-based framework that prioritizes accountability and contextual relevance of humanitarian and profession-specific values.

Presenting feminist readings of texts from the legal philosophical and jurisprudential canon, the papers collected here offer an interdisciplinary and critical challenge to established modes of reading law.

What kind of state emerges from the pandemic?

Shame punishment has existed for perhaps as long as people have been punished, and the issue has been revisited in recent years to help improve crime reduction efforts.

The field of ethics in science aims to improve the way the audience perceives science, and this unique workbook discusses the areas of ethics and scientific misconduct.

Analysing both fraud and religion as social constructs with different functions and meanings attributed to them, this book raises issues that are central to debates about the limits of religious toleration in diverse societies, and the possible harm (as well as benefits) that religious organisations can visit upon society and individuals.

How dangerous is someone's job?

'Caring and the Law' considers the law's response to caring.

Partnerships between the public and private sectors are an increasingly accepted method to deal with pressing global issues, such as those relating to health.

First published in 1991, Rethinking Labour-Management Relations explores how the contemporary system of industrial relations developed and outlines proposals for a better alternative.

Drawing on experiences from other jurisdictions within the UK, Criminalising Coercive Control explores the challenges and potential successes which may be faced in implementing Northern Ireland's new domestic abuse offence.

Foreign assistance by the United States is tangled with domestic politics, and perhaps this is most clear in relation to funding for health and family planning.

This volume examines cases of accommodation and recognition of minority practices: cultural, religious, ethnic, linguistic or otherwise, under state law.

Through interdisciplinary research, this book explores the continued cause of the significant gender pay gap that still exists in many countries today.

This book brings together legal scholars engaging with vulnerability theory to explore the implications and challenges for law of understanding vulnerability as generative and a source of connection and development.

Disasters raise serious challenges for contemporary legal orders: they demand significant management, but usually amidst massive disruption to the normal functioning of state authority and society.

The first rigorous, big-data investigation of partisan restricting at the state level.

The Democratic Courthouse examines how changing understandings of the relationship between government and the governed came to be reflected in the buildings designed to house the modern legal system from the 1970s to the present day in England and Wales.

This book provides insights into how AI is changing legal practice, government processes, and individuals' access to those processes, encouraging each of us to consider how technological advances are changing the legal system.

The relationship between law and religion has traditionally been analysed according to two basic paradigms.

Many counselors learn about ethics in graduate school by applying formal, step-by-step ethical decision-making models that require counselors to be aware of their values and refrain from imposing personal values that might harm clients.

Women, Reentry and Employment: Criminalized and Employable?

John Coggon analyses important ethical, legal and political claims related to public health and health regulation.

This book contains a global comparative study of implementation and monitoring mechanisms for national disability strategies.

Recent advances in medical technology have provided healthcare staff with the possibility of maintaining the life of a brain-dead pregnant woman on life-support in order to achieve successful delivery of the foetus.

This second edition of the Handbook of Victims and Victimology presents a comprehensively revised and updated set of essays, bringing together internationally recognised scholars and practitioners to offer substantial research informed overviews within their specialist fields of investigation.

Located between three powerful phenomena, public health, the law and social stigma, methadone maintenance treatment attracts loyal advocates, vociferous critics and innumerable engaged onlookers.