Social law and Medical law

What are the various forces influencing the role of the prison in late modern societies?

Psychoanalysis is not just about what happens in the room - it is also about the structure that holds it all together.

This book offers the first full examination of the legal role of public guardianship in 25 years, comparing current conditions to those when the last study was published in 1981.

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

This book discusses the core concepts of international law with a focus on India's position concerning contemporary developments in the field.

International Air Carrier Liability brings together essential treaties and airline-to-airline agreements on air carrier liability, safety and security, and supplements these with expert commentary and analysis.

It is increasingly held that international commercial arbitration is becoming colonized by litigation.

We speak of the right to know with relative ease.

Disability exists in the shadows of public awareness and at the periphery of policy making.

Social Citizenship in the Shadow of Competition explores how economic concepts and tools are reshaping regulatory law.

Law, Religion and Homosexuality is the first book-length study of how religion has shaped, and continues to shape, legislation that regulates the lives of gay men and lesbians .

This volume brings together researchers from different European countries and disciplines who are involved in Clinical Ethics Consultation (CEC).

There has been a widespread resurgence of rights talk in social and legal discourses pertaining to the regulation of family life, as well as an increase in the use of rights in family law cases, in the UK, the US, Canada and Australia.

Combines original empirical data with theoretical and normative analysis of access to justice in the Court of Protection.

This book adopts a novel approach to the social question of restitution and repatriation of sacred cultural property and heritage acquired unethically during the colonial era.

Helter-Shelter is an ethnographic account of the manner in which an emergency shelter is governed on a daily basis, from the perspective of the personnel who are employed and tasked with providing care.

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.

This title was first published in 2003.

The essays selected for this volume focus on issues that arise when attempting to design, review and undertake research involving human participants who are experiencing a private or public emergency.

This book looks at two technological advancements in the area of e-commerce, which dramatically seem to change the way consumers shop online.

Despite the key importance of accountability for the legitimacy of humanitarian action, inadequate academic attention has been given to how the concept of accountability is evolving within the specific branches of the humanitarian enterprise.

Controversial Supreme Court decisions have barred organized school prayer, but neither the Court nor public policy exclude religion from schools altogether.

The law is a well-known tool in fighting gender inequality, but which laws actually advance women's rights?

This book explores the intersecting issues relating the phenomenon of ageing to gender and family law.

Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición del certificado de profesionalidad "SANT0108.

This book explores the question of whether the ideal right to science and culture exists.

This book critically analyzes the European Union's promotion of LGBTI rights in the international arena.

When an individual or couple is considering a difficult choice such as IVF treatment or third party assisted conception, the moral and ethical basis for their decisions may often be informed by their particular faith traditions.

This volume offers snapshots of how rights are debated and employed in public discourse to reshape legal and political relations at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

This accessible guide to advanced medical technologies and methodologies for monitoring, diagnosing, and predicting cardiovascular diseases addresses sensor technologies and non-invasive monitoring methods and looks at the growing integration of machine learning and AI.

The women's movement and increasing social consciousness regarding gender disparity and discrimination has helped to make gains over the past several decades to reduce gender disparity for women in the workplace.

Homosexuality and the European Court of Human Rights is the first book-length study of the Court's jurisprudence in respect of sexual orientation.

Security Law and Methods examines suggested security methods designed to diminish or negate the consequence of crime and misconduct, and is an attempt to understand both the legal exposures related to crime and the security methods designed to prevent crime.

PUBLISHED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE NUFFIELD TRUST Quality is an issue of central importance in the NHS and yet, despite a considerable number of initiatives, programmes and organisation that have focussed on improving quality in the NHS over recent years, there's no comprehensive, reliable balance and rigorous account of the strengths and weaknesses in healthcare delivery.

Based on the fifth edition of Kaplin and Lee s indispensable guide to the law that bears on the conduct of higher education, The Law of Higher Education, Fifth Edition: Student Version provides an up-to-date textbook, reference, and guide for coursework in higher education law and programs preparing higher education administrators for leadership roles.

The fourth edition of Button on Taxis completely updates the text to take account of changes to legislation, case law and Guidance since the publication of the third edition.

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.

The assumption that Member States of the European Union enjoyed exclusive competence over social provision has been shaken by the realisation that they are now semi-sovereign welfare states whose policy choices are subject to increasing scrutiny under Community law.

Published in 1998.

Offering the first empirically driven assessment of the development, marketisation, regulation and use of online gambling organisations and their products, this book explores the relationship between online gambling and crime.

The book's main contribution is its interdisciplinary approach to the issue of sedation at the end-of-life.

Revisiting Juvenile Justice in India analyzes the challenges and issues involved in the study of juvenile justice in India.

Centralising the experience of victims-survivors and other grassroots actors, this book examines how transitional justice can be used in transforming the Kurdish conflict in Turkey.

Taking a multidisciplinary perspective (including public health, sociology, criminology, and political science amongst others) and using examples from across the globe, this book provides a detailed understanding of the complex and highly contested nature of drug policy, drug policy making, and the theoretical perspectives that inform the study of drug policy.

This book addresses a gap in both contemporary theorising and empirical analysis of the European Union's (EU) law and policy frameworks on migration, sex work and anti trafficking.

Le cadavre d'un être humain peine à entrer dans les catégories traditionnelles du droit.

First published in 1999, this volume examines how the challenge of defining and developing an effective structure of fundamental social rights for workers has long been a focus for debate at European level.