Social law and Medical law

Breaking new ground in criminology, this book reflects on the expansion of outer space endeavours, the new pathways this presents for crime, challenges to Earth-based conceptions of justice, and the ethical issues raised.

Governmentality and EU External Trade and Environment Policy applies theories drawn from Foucauldian governmentality studies to investigate the ideological and political roots of the European Union (EU)'s external trade and environmental policy and their effects on the transnational legal landscape.

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This work gives an overview of the impact of EU competition rules and internal market law on healthcare systems in Europe.

Philosophies of Difference engages with the concept of difference in relation to a number of fundamental philosophical and political problems.

Qualitative Research Approaches for Psychotherapy offers the reader a range of current qualitative research approaches congruent with the values and practices of psychotherapy itself: experience-based, reflective, contextualized, and critical.

Examining the on-going dilemma of the management of diversity in Turkey from a historical and legal perspective, this book argues that the state's failure to accommodate ethno-religious diversity is attributable to the founding philosophy of Turkish nationalism and its heavy penetration into the socio-political and legal fibre of the country.

This volume collects key influential papers that have animated the debate about information computer ethics over the past three decades, covering issues such as privacy, online trust, anonymity, values sensitive design, machine ethics, professional conduct and moral responsibility of software developers.

Featuring contributions from leading scholars of health privacy law, this important volume offers insightful reflection on issues such as confidentiality, privacy, and data protection, as well as analysis in how a range of jurisdictions-including the US, the UK, Europe, South Africa, and Australia-navigate a rapidly developing biomedical environment.

The New Urban Agenda (NUA), adopted in 2016 at the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) in Quito, Ecuador, represents a globally shared understanding of the vital link between urbanization and a sustainable future.

Organ transplantation is a much-discussed subject, and the importance of living organ donation is increasing significantly.

What do different concepts like true lie, bad luck, honest thief, old news, spacetime, glocalization, symplexity, sustainable development, constant change, soft law, substantive due process, pure law, bureaucratic efficiency and global justice have in common?

There is no end in sight to the frequency with which physicians, nursing professionals and other healthcare providers will become lawsuit targets in our litigious society.

Why have the early years of the 21st century seen increasing use of emergency-type powers or claims of supra-legal executive authority, particularly by the Western countries regarded as the world's leading democracies, notably the United States?

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book re-considers property law for a future of environmental disruption.

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is the only UN treaty to date in which the people who are its target, that is disabled people, were actively involved in its drafting and the only one which requires the active participation of disabled people in its implementation.

This introduction to the philosophy of medicine surveys the landscape of western philosophy as it pertains to healthcare in an accessible way.

This book explores the process of shipbreaking in developing countries, with a particular focus on Bangladesh.

This book explores destitution from the perspective of international human rights law and, more specifically, economic, social, and cultural rights.

Motherhood after Incarceration: Community Reintegration for Mothers in the Criminal Legal System explores the relationships of women with their children immediately after periods of incarceration.

First published in 2011.

Restoring Justice: An Introduction to Restorative Justice, Sixth Edition, offers a clear and convincing explanation of restorative justice, a movement within criminal justice with ongoing worldwide influence.

Ayahuasca is a psychoactive substance that has long been associated with indigenous Amazonian shamanic practices.

This book is the first to explore what design can do for sociolegal research.

Das Buch enthält 19 Landesberichte und eine rechtsvergleichende Analyse der rechtlichen Regelungen zum Verfahren der Genom-Editierung an der menschlichen Keimbahn.

Misogyny as Hate Crime explores the background, nature and consequences of misogyny as well as the legal framework and UK policy responses associated with misogyny as a form of hate crime.

Grundlagen der KriseninterventionDas Standardwerk stellt die sozialwissenschaftlichen Grundlagen der Krisenintervention durch die Kinder- und Jugendhilfe dar, gibt einen differenzierten Überblick über die derzeitige Praxis und erläutert umfassend die rechtlichen Regelungen der sozialpädagogischen Krisenintervention.

In einem einleitenden Abschnitt werden die sehr unbefriedigende gegenwärtige Lage der forensischen Psychiatrie an den Universitäten und in der Rechtspraxis, ihr wissenschaftlicher Rückstand und ihre Fehlentwicklungen sowie die vermutlichen Gründe für diesen Mißstand dargelegt.

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.

Engaging with the underlying social context in which emotions are a motivationalforce, Law and the Passions provides a uniquely inclusive commentary on the significanceand influence of emotions in the history and continuing development oflegal judgment, policy formation, legal practice and legal dogma.

Each year, too many law enforcement officers die in the line of duty and too many people are killed by the police.

Humanitarian protection has evolved from an act of charity into a legal obligation not to remove certain categories of non-nationals.

Explains the ethical imperative to take seriously the potential impacts on our identities of encountering bioinformation about ourselves.

The Oxford Handbook of Children and the Law presents cutting-edge scholarship on a broad range of topics covering the life course of humans from before birth to adulthood, by leading scholars in law, medicine, social work, sociology, education, and philosophy, and by practitioners in law and medicine.

A multidisciplinary and international examination of the developing debates around using the criminal law to sanction disease transmission.

This book brings rhetorical, legal, and professional communication perspectives to the discourse surrounding policy-making efforts within the United States around two types of violent crimes against women: domestic violence and sexual assault.

Based on the texts of traditional Chinese dramas such as The Orphan of Zhao, Liang Shangbo and Zhu Yingtai, The Injustice to Dou E, and The Fifteen Strings of Cash, the book aims to broaden the scope of law and literature in China.

As the threats posed by organised crime and terrorism persist, law enforcement authorities remain under pressure to suppress the movement, or flows, of people and objects that are deemed dangerous.

Contesting Carceral Logic provides an innovative and cutting-edge analysis of how carceral logic is embedded within contemporary society, emphasizing international perspectives, the harms and critiques of using carceral logic to respond to human wrongdoing, and exploring penal abolition thought.

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.

Das Europäische Privatrecht hat in den letzten Jahren ein neues Entwicklungsstadium erreicht.

Whilst equal pay, maternity rights and sex discrimination, including sexual harassment, have received attention from feminist scholars, there is an increasing awareness that it is the whole of the working environment that must be examined if real progress is to be made.

This title was first published in 2003: As new medical technologies and treatments develop with increasing momentum, the legal and ethical implications of research involving human participants are being called into question as never before.

This book addresses the intersections of gender, sexuality and social justice in relation to dominant development and policy discourses and interventions.