Social law and Medical law

Sexuality, Disability, and the Law approaches issues of sexual autonomy and disability from multiple perspectives, including constitutional law, international human rights, therapeutic jurisprudence, history, cognitive psychology, dignity studies, and theories and findings on gender constructs and societal norms.

This fully revised fourth edition of a well-respected textbook seeks to build social workers' confidence in legal interpretation and implementation - practitioners must not only know the law; they must also have a critical appreciation of its implications for human rights, civil liberties and social justice.

Presents comprehensively the currently un-mapped constellation of issues related to climate change, public health, and the law.

The place of emotion in legal education is rarely discussed or analysed, and we do not have to seek far for the reasons.

Questions of evidence and proof are fundamental to the operation of substantive law and to our understanding of law as a social practice.

The 'reparational turn' in the field of law has resulted in the increased use of so-called 'informal' approaches to conflict resolution, including primarily the three mechanisms considered in this book: mediation, restorative justice and reparations.

Professional misconduct within the academic community is highly publicised.

This book investigates the experiences of women in Zimbabwe facing COVID-19 and gender-based violence, arguing that the insights from this extremely tough period could be used as a springboard for positive legal, cultural and policy changes.

This key collection brings together a selection of papers commissioned and published by the Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law & Society.

Recent debate over healthcare and its spiraling costs has brought medical error into the spotlight as an indicator of everything that is ineffective, inhumane, and wasteful about modern medicine.

This book explores the relationship between space, subjectivity and property in order to invert conventional socio-legal understandings of property.

Whilst equal pay, maternity rights and sex discrimination, including sexual harassment, have received attention from feminist scholars, there is an increasing awareness that it is the whole of the working environment that must be examined if real progress is to be made.

Rarely in the short history of liberal-democratic government has a primer on basic liberal-democratic values and institutions been more needed than now.

Following the rise of the zemiological movement, the concept of social harm has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention.

This book prepares the mental health professional to use scientific skills when working within a legal framework.

Dieses Werk vermittelt das regulative Umfeld sowie grundlegende Strukturen, Rechtsprechung und aktuelle Entwicklungen des digitalen Zeitalters für die Vermarktung von Qualitätslebensmitteln im Schnittfeld von öffentlichem Recht und Privatrecht.

This book provides a thorough and directed focus on successfully identifying, obtaining, and succeeding in a career in criminal justice or criminology.

How human rights principles, like the right to gender identity, freedom, integrity and equality, respond to the concerns of different groups of adults and children who experience gender harm due to the binary conception of sexuality and gender identity is the overall theme of this book.

Marriage migration is a controversial and problematic issue in the UK as elsewhere in Europe.

This book studies a range of legal systems and compares them on their ability to deal with psychosocial risks at work.

This book examines the relationship between man and nature through different cultural approaches to encourage new environmental legislation as a means of fostering acceptance at a local level.

Healing Veteran Moral Injury highlights the importance of story and metaphor in the change process and in trauma-related work.

It is often asserted that 'A family that prays together, stays together'.

The emergence of new and substantial human migration flows is one of the most important consequences of globalisation.

Whilst feminist philosophy has frequently engaged with political theory, this original book instead considers legal theory and the practical operation of law.

Juristen, Ärzte, Pharmakologen und Apotheker finden in diesem Werk drei wesentliche Aspekte des Medizinrechts: das Arztrecht, das Arzneimittelrecht und das Recht der Medizinprodukte.

Canada is a global aviation powerhouse.

This book offers a comparative perspective on Northern and Southern European laws and customs concerning women's property and economic rights.

The Origins of Criminology: A Reader is a collection of nineteenth-century texts from the key originators of the practice of criminology - selected, introduced, and with commentaries by the leading scholar in this area, Nicole Rafter.

Offering insights based on years of original research, Redefining Murder, Transforming Emotion: An Exploration of Forgiveness after Loss Due to Homicide investigates the ideas and experiences of individuals who have lost loved ones to homicide (co-victims) in order to advance our understanding of the emotional transformation of forgiveness.

Exceptionally clear and well-written chapters provide engaging discussions of the methods of accessing, generating, and analyzing social science data, using methods ranging from reflexive historical analysis to critical ethnography.

Bringing together a collection of essays by writers with diverse knowledge of the US criminal justice system, from those with personal experience in prison and on patrol to scholarly researchers, What Is a Criminal?

This volume collects key influential papers that have animated the debate about information computer ethics over the past three decades, covering issues such as privacy, online trust, anonymity, values sensitive design, machine ethics, professional conduct and moral responsibility of software developers.

Restorative justice is an innovative approach to responding to crime and conflict that shifts the focus away from laws and punishment to instead consider the harm caused and what is needed to repair that harm and make things right.

Many critical theorists talk and write about the day after the revolution, but few have actually participated in the constitution of a revolutionary government.

This updated third edition is an essential overview for teachers and students in medical and biological sciences, and for those who conduct animal-based research.

This book is an empirically grounded, critical engagement with the politics of immigration detention and deportation.

Medical Treatment Decisions and the Law covers an increasingly important area of law, seeking to place medical decision-making in its context and to provide practical guidance to the solution of many problems likely to be encountered in practice.

Today, the increasing mobility of capital, people and information has changed the space relations of urban societies.

This timely volume discusses the much debated and controversial subject of the presence of religion in the public sphere.

Awarded the 2013 Birks Book Prize by the Society of Legal Scholars, Women, Judging and the Judiciary expertly examines debates about gender representation in the judiciary and the importance of judicial diversity.

This book considers institutional racism as a problem that exists within modern societies.

The Fourth Edition of this bestselling, highly regarded book has been fully revised to incorporate changes in law and clinical guidance making a vital impact on patient management, encompassing: .

Winner of the 2019 Francis Lieber Prize Recognizing an Exceptional Published Book in the Field of the Law of Armed ConflictThis book examines how the Israeli High Court of Justice (HCJ) has interpreted and applied international law principles in adjudicating petitions filed by Palestinians.

Grounded in Critical Race Theory (CRT), Black Men in Law School refutes the claim that when African American law students are "e;mismatched"e; with more selective law schools, the result is lower levels of achievement and success.

This book fills a gap in the literature by presenting a comprehensive overview of the key issues relating to law and development in Asia.