Culture, Health, and Social Change is the first of three volumes on Aging conceived for the International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine.
First published in 2006, this book brings together some of the most innovative and important research on civil rights law and legality, this book draws on narratives of individuals from a variety of contexts to provide a rich and contextualized understanding of what happens when law interacts with other competing systems or forms of social organization.
The last twenty years have seen an explosion in the development of information technology, to the point that people spend a major portion of waking life in online spaces.
This book examines the subtle ways in which rhetorics of sacrifice have been re-appropriated into the workings of the global political economy in the 21st century.
Health rights litigation is still an emerging phenomenon in Africa, despite the constitutions of many African countries having provisions to advance the right to health.
This book examines how class shapes interactions between professionals, parents, and young people in the youth justice system, utilising a mix of contemporary social theory and a wealth of empirical material.
Examines how privacy, confidentiality, consent, identifiability, safeguards and data sharing affect the pursuit of health research for the common good.
This book examines how civil society engages with transitional justice in Russia, demonstrating a broad range of roles civil society can undertake while operating in a restrictive political context.
This volume considers whether it is possible to establish carefully tailored hate speech policies that recognize the histories and values of different countries.
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the pharmaceutical and medical device industry, including analysis of its current trade and innovation strategies.
The political economy of punishment suggests that the evolution of punitive systems should be connected to the transformations of capitalist economies: in this respect, each 'mode of production' knows its peculiar 'modes of punishment'.
Praise for the first edition: It is hard to see how anyone with responsibilities under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act could manage without a book such as this.
This is the first systematic comparative study into how consumer ADR systems (usually ombudsmen and m diateurs) work, the differing national architectures within which they operate and how they can be improved.
One of the first to provide a socio-legal comparative history of under-studied or ignored Jewish attempts in the 1930s "e;Anglosphere"e; to counter the rise in fascist and Nazi antisemitism, this book examines the ways in which Jewish individuals and organized communal bodies in the mid-to-late 1930s sought to counter this increasing antisemitic violence, physical and verbal, by using the law against their fascist and Nazi attackers.
This book provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis of the sustainable and ethical integration of artificial intelligence (AI) within legal education, offering practical strategies for balancing innovation with ethical responsibility.
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.
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.
This book examines the little or not previously researched roles and contributions of non-legal professionals in Japanese criminal justice against the background of recent social and legal changes that either gave birth to or affected the roles played by these "e;outsiders"e;.
This book provides answers to crucial questions such as which pension schemes fall under the scope of Regulation 883/2004 on the coordination of social security systems, and which pensions constitute social security benefits to be coordinated.
Published in 1997, an edited collection of essays by a group of international public interest scholars and activists that examines the role and function of the law school in developing, transmitting and understanding the use of law to bring about social change to the advantage of subordinated people.
This book is the first to address the multi-faceted influence of the global financial crisis on the national constitutions of the countries most affected.
Vernachlässigung der Schutzpflichten des Staates, Psychiatrisierung statt Ermittlung, Verletzung des Anspruchs auf ein faires Verfahren, Freiheitsberaubung, Verletzung von Treu und Glauben, ungerechtfertigter und unverhältnismässiger Eingriff in die persönliche Freiheit, Willkür … Eine Geschichte der Schweiz der letzten zehn Jahre.
This book considers the appropriate response of the criminal law with regard to women whose acts or omissions in pregnancy cause the death or injury of the child born alive.