Social law and Medical law

Heather Widdows suggests new ethical frameworks for genetic governance, to replace those that offer little protection and permit significant injustice.

This book examines the idea of a fundamental entitlement to health and healthcare from a human rights perspective.

This book introduces and develops the paradigm of the organisational contract in European contract law.

Although Indonesia is generally considered to be a Muslim state, and is indeed the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation, it has a sizeable Christian minority as a legacy of Dutch colonialism, with Christians often occupying relatively high social positions.

The formerly established medically-based idea of disability, with its charity-based approach to treatment and services, is being replaced by a human rights-based approach in which people with impairments are no longer considered medical problems, totally dependent on the beneficence of non-impaired people in society, but have fundamental rights to support, inclusion, and participation.

This volume features the leading contemporary articles that are part of, or related to, the 'new masculinities' approach in this sphere.

Ethics for Global Mental Health examines the limitations of current normative approaches to global mental health (GMH) work and argues for a values-based framework that prioritizes accountability and contextual relevance of humanitarian and profession-specific values.

Focusing on juvenile transfer and disposition evaluations, this volume provides an up-to-date integration of current law, science, and practice with respect to juvenile risk assessment, treatment needs/amenability, and sophistication-maturity.

Cultural Practices of Victimhood aims to set the agenda for a cultural study of victimhood.

From the rise of far-right regimes to the tumult of the COVID-19 pandemic, recent years have brought global upheaval as well as the sedimentation of longstanding social inequalities.

How do you apply the principles, structures and processes of the law to everyday practice?

This book presents an analysis of the concepts of female empowerment and resilience against violence in the informal entertainment and sex industries.

Human trafficking captured the attention of the global community well over a decade ago, inspiring multifarious international, national, regional and local responses.

Reflective Learning is the essential reference for health and safety practitioners wanting to develop their professional skills and practice.

In the last few decades university teaching has been recognised as an activity which can be studied and improved through educational scholarship.

This title was first published in 2002.

There has been a general assumption in the international debate surrounding organ procurement that Presumed Consent (opting-out) systems produce better results than Express Consent (opting-in) systems.

John Marks is something of a national treasure.

Every day, thousands of people quietly face decisions as agonizing as those made famous in the Terri Schiavo case.

should be welcomed by all those who work in the field of Family Law an 'off the shelf' comprehensive resource the focus throughout is on helping the reader, not only to understand all relevant aspects of mental illness, but also to understand how that knowledge may impact upon any particular court case Its publication is therefore most welcome and I predict that it will soon become a recognisable presence on the bookshelves of many.

A central component of justice is how the economic goods are distributed in a society.

This book examines the process and purpose of sentencing in the criminal justice system, beyond the confines of its legalistic aspects.

The question of tolerance and Islam is not a new one.

In adopting an innovative case-study approach to social work law and practice, this text fills a genuine need for a book which applies legal knowledge to the practice predicaments social workers face in their daily work.

Medicolegal Essentials in Healthcare provides an overview of the most clinically relevant medicolegal issues for healthcare groups.

Als erste Entscheidungssammlung auf dem Gebiet des Arztrechts stellt die ESA für Mediziner und Juristen ein unentbehrliches Nachschlagewerk zum zentralen Bereich der Aufklärung und Einwilligung bei ärztlicher Behandlung dar.

Reading God's will and a man's Last Will as ideas that reinforce one another, this study shows the relevance of England's early modern crisis, regarding faith in the will of God, to current debates by legal academics on the theory of property and its succession.

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.

In recent decades, indigenous peoples in the Yukon have signed land claim and self-government agreements that spell out the nature of government-to-government relations and grant individual First Nations significant, albeit limited, powers of governance over their peoples, lands, and resources.

This book presents a novel and insightful examination of gender-based violence, inviting readers to consider this topic from various perspectives.

Freedom of religion is an issue of universal interest and scope.

Der ärztliche Beruf verrechtlicht mit rasanter Geschwindigkeit.

When planning a child's Individualized Education Program (IEP), it is vital that parents and educators are involved in collaborative decision making.

Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution aims to further our understanding of judicial policy impact and the role of the courts in shaping policy change.

Erstmalig erfolgt eine juristische Untersuchung von Lebensmittelverschwendung.

In the last 20 years, the related phenomena of honour-based violence and forced marriages have received increasing attention at the international and European level.

The Yearbook of Consumer Law provides a valuable outlet for high quality scholarly work which tracks developments in the consumer law field with a domestic, regional and international dimension.

This authoritative guide to the law of continuing healthcare provides clarity on a contentious issue for those in long-term care: which adults are eligible for full NHS funding, as opposed to self-funded social care.

Home- based work has increased in recent decades and intensified as a result of policies created to control the spread of COVID-19, creating a labour market in rapid transition.

This book proposes ways to use the notion of solidarity fruitfully so as to inform policy and practice in biomedicine.

In 1984, the Sexual Assault Evidence Kit (SAEK) was dubbed "e;Ontario's most successful rapist trap.

This book explores relations between state, religion and law in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This book critiques the contemporary recourse to transparency in law and policy.

This Handbook brings together 40 of the world's leading scholars and rising stars who study international law from disciplines in the humanities - from history to literature, philosophy to the visual arts - to showcase the distinctive contributions that this field has made to the study of international law over the past two decades.

The Routledge Handbook of IIliberalism is the first authoritative reference work dedicated to illiberalism as a complex social, political, cultural, legal, and mental phenomenon.