Social law and Medical law

Martha Albertson Fineman's earlier work developed a theory of inevitable and derivative dependencies as a way of problematizing the core assumptions underlying the 'autonomous' subject of liberal law and politics in the context of US equality discourse.

Most scholars attribute systemic causes of food insecurity to poverty, human overpopulation, lack of farmland, and expansion of biofuel programs.

This new edition provides a distinctively broad-based approach to EU Employment Law, covering related social policy and anti-discrimination measures, as well as a detailed overview of how policy and law are made.

Telemedicine has recently become a key focus of healthcare systems globally, heavily influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic and the increased need for remote care pathways.

This volume contains a collection of original papers by leading legal scholars and social scientists that develop new perspectives on anti-discrimination law, with an emphasis on employment discrimination.

This edited volume analyzes the evolution of international disaster law as a field that encompasses new ideas about human rights, sovereignty, and technology.

Addresses the issues faced by philanthropists seeking to engage in international charitable activities and offers alternative approaches to traditional US-based foundations.

An Introduction to Health and Safety Law provides a clear, concise overview of health and safety law in the United Kingdom.

The expanding remit of policing as a fundamental part of the public health continuum is increasingly acknowledged on the international scene.

Technology has attracted an increasing level of attention within studies of disability and disability rights.

Working broadly from the perspective of cultural criminology, Crime, Media and Culture engages with theories and debates about the nature of media-audience relations, examines representations of crime and justice in news media and fiction, and considers the growing significance of digital technologies and social media.

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

This book explores the experience of immigration enforcement for women who have been detained in immigration detention in the UK.

This book is an interdisciplinary study of struggles for indigenous self-determination and the recognition of indigenous' territorial rights in Latin America.

Focusing on the moment when social unrest takes hold of a populace, Law and Disorder offers a new account of sovereignty with an affective theory of public order and protest.

This book is about the social protection of lower-skilled migrants from Sri Lanka.

This book provides the first comprehensive, historically based, philosophical interpretations of two texts of Thomas Percival's professional ethics in medicine set in the context of his intellectual biography.

To date, there have been few theoretical inquiries into the relationship between the technological innovation and basic objectives of consumer protection laws.

This book is a collection of essays honouring and engaging with the work of the late Professor Patrick McAuslan.

A major revision of the landmark book on expert testimony Feder's Succeeding as an Expert Witness, Successful Expert Testimony, Fifth Edition highlights the book's value to both attorneys and expert witnesses in promoting effective, impactful courtroom testimony.

This book seeks to understand how women judges are situated as legal knowers on the High Court of Australia by asking whether a near-equal gender balance on the High Court has disrupted the Court's historically masculinist gender regime.

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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.

Adult Protection and the Law in Scotland provides a guide to the general principles of legislation in relation to adult protection.

This book examines the relationship between law and scientific advancement, with a particular focus on the theory of evolution and medical innovation.

This book offers an accurate and updated approach to the main contributions of cosmopolitan biolaw in relation to sustainability, global governance, organizational health care economics and COVID-19.

This book explores times, spaces and imaginings relating to international law through the lens of queer theory.

What does the UK's exit from the EU mean for health and the NHS?

This volume provides an alternate history of US health law by rewriting key judicial opinions from a feminist perspective.

Offering an anthropological perspective, this volume explores the changing relations between law and governance, examining how changes in the structure of governance affect the relative social significance of law within situations of legal pluralism.

In Sexual Aggression Against Children: Pedophiles' and Abusers' Development, Dynamics, Treatability, and the Law, Drs.

Electrical Safety and the Law describes the hazards and risks from the use of electricity, explaining with the help of case studies and accident statistics the types of accidents that occur and how they can be prevented by the use of safe installations, equipment and working practices.

Brings together different disciplinary perspectives and new empirical insights to explore the regulation of assisted reproduction around the world.

A revolutionary approach exploring legal themes such as justice, legitimacy, sovereignty, and power through close readings of major works of art.

National security in the interest of preserving the well-being of a country is arguably the first and most important responsibility of any democratic government.

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

As long as there have been fans, there has been fan fiction.

This book analyzes the impact of the increasing securitization of migration within the international legal and political order.

This study examines two important questions regarding terrorism and political violence: which threats to human security constitute root causes for collective violence and which adequate responses for these root causes are available to the international community.

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This book investigates the impact of EU law and policy on the Member States' higher education institution (HEI) sectors with a particular emphasis on the exposure of research in universities to EU competition law.

First published in 1985, this is the first published study of violence in the family to be aimed directly at people whose professions bring them into contact with domestic abuse victims, as well as those training for those professions.

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The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has become famed - and often shamed - for its political power.