Social law and Medical law

This book explores the contemporary phenomenon of forced marriage and 'honour' killings in Britain.

Just as patients do not come to a medical office with the intention of suing the p- sician, physicians have no intention of harming their patients.

Restorative justice aims to address the consequences of crime by encouraging victims and offenders to communicate and discuss the harm caused by the crime that has been committed.

As the use of human body parts has become increasingly commercialized, a need has arisen for new approaches to regulation that moves beyond the paradigm of altruism.

The battle is an old one: man versus nature.

Over the past thirty-five years, federal courts have dramatically retreated from actively promoting school desegregation.

Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technology: Principles and Applications consists of the construction and working details of all modern additive manufacturing and 3D-printing technology processes and machines, while also including the fundamentals, for a well-rounded educational experience.

A text dealing with business law which includes topics ranging from the formation of a company and types of business organization, to employment and safety at work, business torts and bankruptcy.

Sexual Violence and Predatory Journalism in India examines unethical editorial practices in the reporting of sexual crimes against women in India, introducing the term Predatory Journalism.

Despite their centrality to the operation of contemporary accredited zoo and aquarium institutions, the work of zoo veterinarians has rarely been the focus of a critical analysis in the social science and humanities.

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

This important resource offers a comprehensive overview of the major U.

Faith, Force, and Reason follows the evolution of the rule of law from its birth in the marshes of Mesopotamia over 4,000 years ago to its battle against apartheid in South Africa in the last twenty-five years.

The Impact of COVID-19 on Prison Conditions and Penal Policy presents the results of a worldwide exchange of information on the impact of COVID-19 in prisons.

Do external factors facilitate or hamper domestic democratic development?

It is hard to believe that there was a time, not long ago, when there was no right to obtain government information, no protection against hazards in children's toys and other consumer products, no federal safety standards for motor vehicles, and no insurance to protect an investors' money and securities in brokerage accounts.

Cultural and religious identity and family law are inter-related in a number of ways and raise various complex issues.

This book will give insight into emerging semiconductor devices from their applications in electronic circuits, which form the backbone of electronic equipment.

Written by two therapists with extensive business experience, Mastering the Financial Dimension of Your Psychotherapy Practice addresses the clinical and financial challenges of establishing and maintaining a successful private practice.

The authors of this new collection argue that the many features of the now-infamous Duke University men's lacrosse controversy are best understood in the context of the three major socio-legal institutions in which the drama played out.

Scholars from political science and law examine the latest research on the constitutionalization of politics in comparative perspective.

This volume explores the diversity and complexity of transgender people's experiences and demonstrates that gendered bodies are constructed through different social, cultural and economic networks and through different spaces and places.

Mit allen relevanten Vorschriften, Hinweisen und Auslegungshilfen zum Sozialen EntschädigungsrechtDer SER-Ratgeber bietet einen konzentrierten und aktuellen Überblick über das gesamte Soziale Entschädigungsrecht.

This collection presents international viewpoints on interdisciplinary problems that fall under the new and emerging field of neurojustice.

As healthcare challenges such as human aging and traffic accidents continue to increase exponentially, the biomedical sector faces a significant obstacle in arranging patient-specific biomedical products.

This book uses film and television as a resource for addressing the social and legal ills of the city.

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

The Law of Assisted Reproduction, Second Edition examines the impact of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (HFEA 2008) and the ongoing controversial issues that surround it from legal, ethical, moral, social and medical points of view.

Alastair Hudson's Equity and Trusts is an ideal textbook for undergraduate courses on the law of trusts and equitable remedies.

Health Law: Frameworks and Context adopts a theoretically informed and principles-based approach to examining health law.

This handbook is a detailed reference source comprising original articles covering the origins, history, theory and practice of Islamic law.

This book contributes to a feminist understanding of international human rights by examining restrictions on reproductive freedom through the lens of the right to be free from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

By focusing on the experiences of users, gamers, and audiences inside one of the world's largest gaming communities (Xbox Live), this book provides an overview of the landscape, architecture, and socio-technical structure of console gaming.

Prison Segregation: The Limits of Law explores the use of segregation in English prisons by examining how law is used and experienced, and how human rights are upheld.

Many countries confront similar human rights controversies, but, despite the claimed universality of human rights values they are not always resolved in the same way.

The past few decades have seen a massive increase in the number of international organizations focusing on global health.

When part of a person's body is separated from them, or when a person dies, it is unclear what legal status the item of bodily material is able to obtain.

Dieses Buch ist für alle mit der urologischen Begutachtung Befaßten eine Einführung wie auch ein Nachschlagewerk.

Latin America has amassed comprehensive expertise in generating, managing, and providing access to archives documenting widespread human rights violations.

The law of contract is ripe for feminist analysis.

In outlining the online expressions of penal life, this book disrupts the conventional human encounters that underpin empirical criminological scholarship on prisons because, figuratively speaking, prisons in Russia are de-nesting from their institutional moorings and borders.

Taking Northern Ireland as its primary case study, this book applies the burgeoning literature in memory studies to the primary question of transitional justice: how shall societies and individuals reckon with a traumatic past?

Florian Wilksch untersucht, inwieweit im Krankenversicherungsrecht das verfassungsrechtlich garantierte Recht auf ein gesundheitliches Existenzminimum verwirklicht ist, wie dies im Rahmen der Fürsorge wirkt und welche Spannungen daraus entstehen.

The teacher who has an affair with a student.

Using the best scientific evidence, Drugs: America's Holy War explores the impact and cost of America's "e;War on Drugs"e; - both in tax spending and in human terms.