Social law and Medical law

Food additives have been used since the beginning of time to enhance the quality and quantity of food products.

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.

Indigenous peoples are increasingly making requests for the return of their ancestors' human remains and ancient indigenous deoxyribonucleic acid.

This is the first research methods book on the application of using a co-production approach for physical activity for health research.

This groundbreaking book contributes to, and refocuses, public debates about the incorporation of plural approaches into the English legal system.

There is much current controversy over whether the rights to seeds or plant genetic resources should be owned by the private sector or be common property.

This book is the first legal geography book to explicitly engage in method.

This leading textbook places medical decision-making in its legal context and provides practical guidance on the most ethically challenging cases that face the courts.

In recent years, western societies have experienced a fundamental transformation in the way crime is understood and dealt with.

This book brings together internationally renowned academics and professionals from a variety of disciplines who, in a variety of ways, seek to understand the legal, conceptual and practical consequences of parental imprisonment through a children's rights lens.

Explores the various impacts of measures of EU law on national health law and policy.

Disobedience has been practiced and considered since time immemorial.

This timely collection brings together philosophical, legal and sociological perspectives on the crucial question of who should make decisions about the fate of a child suffering from a serious illness.

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?

What is the place assigned to religion in the constitutions of contemporary States?

Students' early morning decisions about what to wear to school have led many school districts into legal issues and policy challenges.

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.

'Rediscovering' the peculiarity of feminist perspectives, rather than examining the broader range of gender-oriented analyses, in the area of legal regulation and sexuality, this edited collection avoids the 'reductionist' and 'essentialist' shortcomings of 'feminism unmodified'.

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

Alasdair Maclean examines the ethical basis for consent to medical treatment and offers proposals for reform.

This book is intended to help decision-makers use, assess and appraise the evidence that underpins decisions about the use of therapeutic interventions.

More than twenty-five years after the collapse of the Socialist bloc, the nature of the regimes in Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1989 continues to evade the attempts of political theorists and scholars of post-communism to define and classify them.

This edited book presents international perspectives on the role of mental health problems in understanding and managing the risk of violent extremism.

Automatism is a notoriously difficult subject for law students, lawyers and judges.

Medical articles are one of the main vehicles of knowledge translation and evidence communication in the health sciences.

This title was first published in 2001.

This book presents the findings from original research about court interpreting in the disciplines of humanities and social sciences from a linguistic perspective.

This edited collection provides a comprehensive, insightful, and detailed study of a vital area of public policy debate as it is currently occurring in countries across the world from India to South Africa and the United Kingdom to Australia.

Offers a frank conversation about altruism in the global body market and critiques the vulnerability of altruism to corruption, coercion, pressure, and other negative externalities.

Absolute poverty causes about one third of all human deaths, some 18 million annually, and blights billions of lives with hunger and disease.

When the Constitution Act of 1867 was enacted, section 93 guaranteed certain educational rights to Catholics and Protestants in Quebec, but not to any others.

Examines trust, its definition, value, and decline from the perspective of a physician and a medical ethicist.

Today we have more control over how we live and how we die than we ever had before.

This text comprises cutting-edge research on one of the greatest global challenges: the failure to address systematic economic and social exclusion, and attendant violations of economic and social rights (ESR), as a driver of conflict.

Fourteen essays on major theoretical issues in contemporary criminal law and medical law ethics.

In 1918 a young Carl Schmitt published a short satirical fiction entitled The Buribunks.

The first to use Judith Butler's work as a reading of how the legal subject is formed, this book traces how Butler comes to the themes of ethics, law and politics analyzing their interrelation and explaining how they relate to Butler's question of how people can have more liveable and viable lives.

Domestic and family violence (DFV) is an enduring social and public health issue of endemic proportions and global scale, with multiple and lasting consequences for those directly affected.

Critical legal geography is practised by an increasing number of scholars in various disciplines, but it has not had the benefit of an overarching theoretical framework that might overcome its currently rather ad hoc character.

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the inadequacies of the state's response to public health and public order issues through deeply flawed legislation.

In this groundbreaking work, the authors explore the intricate interplay between commercial surrogacy and the global healthcare system, challenging conventional views with fresh insights into ethical, legal, and medical dimensions.

Birth-based citizenship is widely considered to be the most secure claim to political belonging.

This book explores the effects of institutional fragmentation in international human rights law, by comparing the rights jurisprudence of three human rights courts and bodies, namely the European Court for Human Rights, the Inter-American Court for Human Rights and the Human Rights Committee.

Justice and Legitimacy in Policing critically analyzes the state of American policing and evaluates proposed solutions to reform/transform the institution, such as implementing body-worn cameras, increasing diversity in police agencies, the problem of crimmigration, limiting qualified immunity, and the abolitionist movement.

This volume examines the legal dimension of the ILO's action in the field of Child Labour.

Maritime Accident and Incident Investigation covers a wide range of topics relating to maritime-orientated organisational hazards and risks, as well as root cause analyses and techniques for analysing evidence.

This book presents an argument that intelligent design is a well-designed marketing plan aimed at imposing a theistic naturalism in schools and scientific discourse.