Social law and Medical law

This volume provides an essential update on current thinking, practice and research into the use of restorative justice in the area of family violence.

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.

This textbook is an ambitious and engaging introduction to the more advanced writings on medical law and ethics, primarily designed to allow students to 'get under the skin' of the topic and begin to build their critical thinking and analysis skills.

This book explores the struggle for disability rights, with a focus on Web equality for people with cognitive disabilities.

Officially, Western societies are waging a war on obesity.

There has been much debate about mental health law reform and mental capacity legislation in recent years with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities also having a major impact on thinking about the issue.

Dieser kompakte Leitfaden beleuchtet in 15 Kapiteln die rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen der medizinischen Forschung in Deutschland.

Faith, Force, and Reason follows the evolution of the rule of law from its birth in the marshes of Mesopotamia over 4,000 years ago to its battle against apartheid in South Africa in the last twenty-five years.

Featuring contributions from scholars from across the globe, Routledge Handbook of Public Criminologies is a comprehensive resource that addresses the challenges related to public conversations around crime and policy.

This book explores the intersection of two emergent and vibrant fields of study in international human rights law: transitional justice and corporate accountability for human rights abuses.

This book takes a comprehensive approach to investigate how Sharia influences and manifests in the everyday lives of young Muslims, aiming to unravel the meaning and relevance of Sharia-driven laws and practices in English-speaking Western societies.

This book presents a feminist historical materialist analysis of the ways in which the law, policing and penal regimes have overlapped with social policies to coercively discipline the poor and marginalized sectors of the population throughout the history of capitalism.

Interactional Justice explores how defence lawyers accomplish their role in interaction with others and highlights the ways in which they do loyalty work - constructing and conveying loyalty in emotionally and interactionally constraining situations.

In recent years, controversy has surrounded the role of top government lawyers in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Exploring the nuances and complexities in men's and women's accounts of how mainstream pornography is experienced in their everyday lives, this book demonstrates how pornography can be both a site for pleasure and pain across gendered lines.

The objective of Arab Criminology is to establish a criminological subfield called 'Arab Criminology.

Nowhere is the injustice of the global distribution of income and wealth more palpable than in health.

Lange bestand hinsichtlich der ärztlichen Pflicht zur Offenbarung von Behandlungsfehlern in Literatur und Rechtsprechung ein diffuses Meinungsbild.

This book analyses how international criminal institutions, and their actors - legal counsels, judges, investigators, registrars - construct witness identity and memory.

Transitional justice processes are now considered to be crucial steps in facilitating the move from conflict or repression to a secure democratic future.

This book examines the understudied, yet increasingly applied, concept of Guarantees of Non-Repetition under international human rights law and transitional justice.

Das vorliegende Praxishandbuch führt das Fachwissen verschiedener Expertinnen und Experten im Bereich der schweizerischen Produktregulierung zusammen und bietet einen interdisziplinär ausgerichteten Zugang zu dieser anspruchsvollen Materie.

This book constitutes the first comprehensive publication on the duty of care of internationalorganizations towards their civilian personnel sent on missions and assignments outsideof their normal place of activity.

Providing the basis for critical engagement with the pessimism of the contemporary age, The Degradation of the International Legal Order?

By defining appropriate boundaries for the defence of insanity and the doctrine of automatism, this book presents a consistent and principled approach to the reform of mental state defences.

Examines the pharmaceutical industry to expose how higher-priced drugs receive favorable treatment and patients are channeled toward the most expensive medicines.

This volume identifies and elaborates on the significance and functions of the various actors involved in the development of family law in the Middle East.

This book investigates how the requirements, limitations and intellectual structure of the British legal process have shaped medicine and medical practice.

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This book is about the regulation of corporations that use bribery in international commerce to win or maintain overseas business contracts and interests.

Have we gone too far in enacting laws, promulgating regulations and announcing policies that threaten freedom of association, either now or 'in waiting' for the future?

Michele Goodwin and a group of contributing experts examine the ways in which Westerners create families through private, market processes.

This book draws upon nearly seven decades of first-hand experiences from the ground to understand social exclusion, and movements and efforts for social justice in India.

Considering the steady increase in intellectual property rights in the last century, does it make sense to speak of 'user's rights' and can limitations on intellectual liberty be justified from a rights-based perspective?

This Handbook examines the essential nature of the law within an educational context and asks why there is not greater preparation for this aspect of a teacher's role.

This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the role played by law(s) in the British Empire.

Articles of Association for Charities and Not for Profit Organisations: Guidance and Precedents contains guidance and full precedents to help charity trustees, members of incorporated companies by guarantee, professional charity advisers and solicitors to form constitutional documents that meet the Charity Commission's requirements.

Social law and policy have been moving increasingly into the mainstream of the European Union.

Since the late 1980s, growing migration from countries with a Muslim cultural background, and increasing Islamic fundamentalism related to terrorist attacks in Western Europe and the US, have created a new research field investigating the way states and ordinary citizens react to these new phenomena.

Exploring both the intrapersonal (moral) and interpersonal (ethical) nature of death and dying in the context of their development (philosophical), Dying in a Transhumanist and Posthuman Society shows how death and dying have been and will continue to be governed in any given society.

Human Rights and the Body is a response to the crisis in human rights, to the very real concern that without a secure foundation for the concept of human rights, their very existence is threatened.

This book examines mediation topics such as impartiality, self-determination and fair outcomes through popular culture lenses.

How did Canadian border officers come to think of themselves as a "e;police of the border"e;?

The second edition of a major text provides a thorough exploration of medical law and ethics, written from the perspective of authors who are medical and health care practitioners as well as law lecturers.

Dr Syrett evaluates how courts may contribute to the attainment of legitimacy in healthcare rationing.

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.