Social law and Medical law

Tackling juvenile offending has become a key part of crime reduction strategies.

Women, Crime and Justice in Context presents contemporary feminist approaches to key issues in criminal justice.

This book makes a strong argument against the widely proclaimed notion that the United States is destined to decline.

The introduction of self-assessment for income tax collection in the late 1990s marked a striking moment of cultural convergence between the UK and the US.

This volume looks at the forms and functions of counterspeech as well as what determines its effectiveness and success from multidisciplinary perspectives.

Eine immer größer werdende Zahl deutscher Patienten begibt sich zur medizinischen Behandlung gezielt ins Ausland.

Bringing key Shakespeare texts into dialogue with feminist socio-legal research, this book investigates the notion of a 'crime of passion' - indicatively, wife-killing.

Time is an abducted child's worst enemy.

Bringing together cutting-edge theory and research that bridges academic disciplines from criminology and criminal justice, to developmental psychology, sociology, and political science, Thinking About Victimization offers an authoritative and refreshingly accessible overview of scholarship on the nature, sources, and consequences of victimization.

Locknie Hsu explores the economic and public health issues that impact upon access to medicines in Asian states.

Demonstrating the crucial role that private international law and legality has played and continues to play in shaping globalization, this book argues that the rules, institutions, and actors that make up the practice of private international law have been critical in translating political and economic power into legal regimes that have facilitated the processes of globalization.

This book explores the conceptual and theoretical frameworks of Right to Water and analyzes its values in the context of water policy frameworks of the union governments in India.

The Queer/Sexual minority which interalia includes lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (hereinafter LGBT) people is not a new phenomenon in today's scenario.

The Routledge Companion to Gender and COVID-19 is the first comprehensive research guide for researchers and students who seek to study and evaluate the complex relationship between gender and COVID-19.

The emergence of the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is transforming the management of diseases, improving diseases diagnosis and treatment methods, and reducing healthcare costs and errors.

The 2nd Edition of Who Owns You, David Koepsell s widely acclaimed exploration of the philosophical and legal problems of patenting human genes, is updated to reflect the most recent changes to the cultural and legal climate relating to the practice of gene patenting.

How did industrialization drive the development of consumer rights and protections in the USA?

Mental health laws exist in many countries to regulate the involuntary detention and treatment of individuals with serious mental illnesses.

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

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has become famed - and often shamed - for its political power.

Specifically designed to address the needs of all specialists involved in the care of chronic pain patients, this source clarifies the ethical and legal issues associated with the diagnosis, assessment, and care of patients suffering from long-term pain.

Women's employment is one of the most widely-discussed and often-misunderstood issues of modern society.

It is increasingly argued that a focus on environmental sustainability is fundamental to effective and equitable governance, and ultimately for the good of mankind.

Uncertain Risks Regulated compares various models of risk regulation in order to understand how these systems shape the relationship between law and science, and how they attempt to overcome public distrust in science-based decision-making.

The Fast and The Furious: Drivers, Speed Cameras and Control in a Risk Society presents a sociological and criminological perspective critical to understanding the driver's role at the centre of road safety interventions.

This book critically assesses categorical divisions between indigenous individual and collective rights regimes embedded in the foundations of international human rights law.

It is estimated that 20,000 people were subjected to rape and other forms of sexual violence during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war.

The Data Protection and Medical Research in Europe: PRIVIREAL series represents the results of this EC-funded project examining the implementation of Directive 95/46/EC on data protection in relation to medical research and the role of ethics committees in European countries.

A framework for the exploration of accountability deficits (gaps) and overloads (overlaps) in the context of public governance regimes.

Ageing, Gender and Sexuality focuses on the experiences of older lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) individuals, in order to analyse how ageing, gender and sexuality intersect to produce particular inequalities relating to resources, recognition and representation in later life.

Today's increasingly sophisticated psychological and neuropsychological assessments allow for a greater understanding, and improved evaluations, in forensic psychology.

Comprehensive analysis showing that utilities and welfare services are important building blocks for the EU social market economy.

Changing Abortion Laws in Mexico Through Advocacy and Human Rights presents the recent evolution of abortion laws in Mexico (2007-2021) and how advocates have shaped them through human rights discourses, challenging social norms.

This book examines how regulators and policymakers from nine different countries have dealt with Uber, and initiates a legal dialogue between different jurisdictions that could potentially pave the way to a harmonized approach in regulating Uber.

Jeder von uns wird im Laufe seines Lebens irgendwann einmal Patient oder Patientin sein und sich mit dem Gesundheitswesen auseinandersetzen.

After heart disease and cancer, the third leading cause of death in the United States is iatrogenic injury (avoidable injury or infection caused by a healer).

In dem vorliegenden Buch wird die Zulässigkeit einer ärztlichen Mitwirkung an verbotenen Kinderwunschbehandlungen im Ausland analysiert.

This book considers the governance of autistic defendants and offenders in the UK courts.

This book presents a legal genealogy of biodiversity - of its strategic use before and after the adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 1993.

Die Pflicht zur Qualitätssicherung wurde erstmals im SGB V 1989 gesetzmäßig verankert und 1993 in das GSG übernommen.

Governmentality and EU External Trade and Environment Policy applies theories drawn from Foucauldian governmentality studies to investigate the ideological and political roots of the European Union (EU)'s external trade and environmental policy and their effects on the transnational legal landscape.

Over the last decade, Europe has been struggling to cope with a series of significant and challenging global crises.

This book examines the often tough questions raised by infectious diseases through essays that explore a host of legal and ethical issues.

Examining the relationship between law and social change in the context of employees' everyday problems with sexual harassment, this volume elaborates a framework for studying the role of law in everyday acts of resistance - what the author calls the legal consciousness of injustice.

This volume takes stock of contemporary perspectives on gender and crime.

Forced migration is both as ancient as human life on earth and a relatively new subject of interest for human rights scholars.