Social law and Medical law

Analyses the highly controversial problems of DNA forensic technologies, providing important insights into their ethical, legal and societal dimensions.

While almost all universal health coverage in Canada is provided under the Canada Health Act, there is Medicare coverage that is provided outside of the act.

How might we best manage those who have offended but have mental vulnerabilities?

Islamic legal theory (usA l al-fiqh) is literally regarded as 'the roots of the law' whilst Islamic jurists consider it to be the basis of Islamic jurisprudence and thus an essential aspect of Islamic law.

This book provides a nuanced picture of how diverse legal debates on the pursuit of economic development and modernization have played out in Latin America since independence.

Applying innovative interpretive strategies drawn from cultural studies, this book considers the perennial question of law and politics: what role do the founding fathers play in legitimizing contemporary judicial review?

In this volume, leading leading scholars and practitioners introduce law as foundational discipline in education.

This book examines the procedural, cultural, and institutional framework of custodial interrogation in India.

Drawing on multidisciplinary findings and ideas, this book discusses fair allocation of social resources, such as goods, services and information, in a novel and integrated way.

Does the state still frame debates about new technology?

Dieses Werk ist eine medizinstrafrechtliche Studie, die sich mit ärztlichen Behandlungsfehlern im engeren Sinne und insbesondere mit ärztlichen Diagnosefehlern beschäftigt.

Modern technology using state-of-the-art equipment can now identify almost any toxin relevant to a legal issue.

Legal issues encroach into almost every aspect of modern day education in Ireland.

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 volume examines the evolution of Central European product liability systems, with particular reference to the effect of the implementation of the Product Liability Directive in the context of the recent enlargement of the EU.

'Inquisitorial processes' refers to the inquiry powers of administrative governance and this book examines the use of these powers in administrative law across seven jurisdictions.

There is ample evidence about the negative effects business activity of all types can have on the provision of human rights.

Written from the viewpoint of the practicing clinician, this text is an indispensable addition to the library of anyone who is in the practice of medicine, osteopathy, or chiropractic, as well as for the judge, lawyer, or social worker who may interact with those presenting with the possibility of malingering.

This book marks the retirement of Professor Sheila McLean, whose contribution to the discipline of medical law has been truly ground breaking.

Scientific research is fundamental to addressing issues of great importance to the development of human knowledge.

Healing Veteran Moral Injury highlights the importance of story and metaphor in the change process and in trauma-related work.

Forty years ago, in his landmark work A Theory of Justice, the American philosopher John Rawls depicted a just society as a fair system of cooperation between citizens, regarded as free and equal persons.

Examines social and political issues that have become resistant to compromise by examining them through a population-based public health perspective.

This book is among the first books to consider post-communist Europe from the point of view of the rule of law.

Prison Law is the leading text in its field.

This book presents a Foucauldian problematisation analysis of crime, with a particular focus on the twentieth century.

Who are the perpetrators of modern slavery?

Das anlässlich des 50-jährigen Bestehens der VG WORT herausgegebene Werk beschreibt die Vorgeschichte und Geschichte der bekannten Autoren- und Verlegervereinigung auf der Grundlage einer breiten archivalischen Überlieferung.

This remarkable book offers enlightening reading for everyone interested in international law, human rights, global health, public health and health promotion.

This edited collection brings together a range of experts on surrogacy, at a time when the law in the UK has been fully reconsidered for the first time in generations.

This book presents arguments and proposals for constraining criminalization, with a focus on the legal limits of the criminal law.

This book critically analyzes emerging issues and challenges in delivering timely justice to common people.

The Routledge International Handbook of Criminology and Human Rights brings together a diverse body of work from around the globe and across a wide range of criminological topics and perspectives, united by its critical application of human rights law and principles.

Human rights seemingly offer universal protection.

This book explores the human rights consequences of recent and ongoing revisions of mental health legislation in England and Ireland.

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.

This book uses a controversial criminal immigration court procedure along the Mexico-U.

Genocide and Victimology examines genocide in its diverse features, from different yet connected perspectives, to offer an interdisciplinary, victimological imagination of genocide.

What is it to do justice to the absent victims of past injustice, given the distance that separates us from them?

Proposes a reconceptualization of consent which argues that consent should be viewed as a dynamic concept that is context-dependent, incremental, and variable.

Forensic science has become a mainstay of popular culture on television, in movies, books, and podcasts.

Statistics and evidence-based medicine are assessed in most postgraduate and undergraduate medical examinations and degrees in health sciences.

Stay up-to-date on the ethical and legal issues that affect your clinical and professional decisions!

On the Right of Exclusion: Law, Ethics and Immigration Policy addresses the current immigration laws and practices of Western states, and argues that if states cannot substantially justify the exclusion of an alien, the latter should be admitted.

Environmental crime is one of the most profitable and fastest growing areas of international criminal activity.

Risk, Power and the State addresses how power is exercised in and by contemporary state organisations.

The arts - spanning the visual, design, performing, media, musical, and literary genres - constitute an alternative lens through which to understand state-sanctioned punishment and its place in public consciousness.