Social law and Medical law

Over the past 30 years Robert Dingwall has published an influential series of articles on the professions, especially law and medicine.

This book details the advances in drug discovery and delivery and the present need for emerging technologies.

This analysis of currents trends in financial regulation offers a roadmap for those countries considering adopting the Twin Peaks model.

Der Band „Facetten von Gesundheitskompetenz in einer Gesellschaft der Vielfalt“ zeichnet ein vielseitiges Bild über die Bedeutung von Gesundheit und Gesundheitskompetenz in einer Gesellschaft, die von zunehmender Diversität, digitaler Transformation und immer leistungsfähigerer Medizin geprägt ist.

The articles selected for this volume draw on game theory, political science, psychology, sociology and anthropology to consider how the process of dispute resolution is altered, challenged and made more complex by the presence of multiple parties and/or multiple issues.

Die Beiträge zu diesem interdisziplinär konzipierten Buch befassen sich mit zentralen Fragen der medizinischen Ethik.

In the parliamentary system of government, manifestos constitute and represent an important aspect of the democratic electoral politics as statements of a party's ideology, response and policy.

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.

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.

This title was first published in 2001.

Every day, large numbers of altruistic individuals, in the absence of any legal duty, provide substantial and essential services for elderly and disabled people.

The Supreme Court's decision in the Health Care Case, NFIB v.

Das Dogma der fehlenden Waffengleichheit im Arzthaftungsprozess begründet die Rechtsprechung mit einem gegebenen Wissensgefälle zwischen den Parteien.

This title was first published in 2002.

This volume offers snapshots of how rights are debated and employed in public discourse to reshape legal and political relations at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic will be a topic for academic research for years to come.

In this exciting and topical collection, leading scholars discuss the implications of globalisation for the fields of comparative criminology and criminal justice.

Public Health Law and Ethics defines these fields for a new generation.

Investigating the extent to which the European Union can be defined as a "e;highly competitive social market economy"e;, this edited collection illustrates and tests the constitutional reverberations of Art.

Providing a radical new approach to labour migration, this book challenges the prevailing legal and political construction of the figure of the irregular migrant labourer, whilst at the same time reimagining this irregularity as the basis of an alternative, post-capitalist, sociality.

Speaking for the Dead is an incisive examination of the highly topical and often controversial issues surrounding the use of human cadavers in scientific research.

This collection brings together a group of highly respected law and religion scholars to explore the funding of religious heritage in the context of state support for religions.

This book discusses feature films that enrich our understanding of doctor-patient dilemmas.

An ethically-principled and pragmatic approach offering solutions to the problem of organ shortage, which remains pervasive in many countries.

Fourteen essays on major theoretical issues in contemporary criminal law and medical law ethics.

This first-of-a-kind analysis will focus exclusively on unavoidable and mandated multiple relationships between clients and psychotherapists.

What is the 'rule of law'?

First published in 2005.

Educational Planning of Court-Involved Youth provides a framework for alleviating chronic barriers for youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems.

In contrast with the progressive dilution of religions predicted by traditional liberal and Marxist approaches, religions remain important for many people, even in Europe, the most secularised continent.

Between 1930 and the mid-1970s, several thousand Canadian-born children were adopted by families in the United States.

This book is a contribution to the nascent discourse on global health and biomedical research ethics involving Muslim populations and Islamic contexts.

Niklas Luhmann is recognised as a major social theorist, and his treatise on the sociology of law is a classic text.

This book explores situations in which public opinion presents itself as an obstacle to the protection and promotion of human rights.

This book explores the normative and legal evolution of the Social Dimension - labour law, social security law and family law - in both the EU and its Member States, during the last decade.

This book examines the largely neglected but crucial role of transnational actors in democratic constitution-making.

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

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

Biography of the Abortion Act, exploring how it was shaped by and shaped a changing UK.

This book examines the representation and misrepresentation of queer people in true crime, addressing their status as both victims and perpetrators in actual crime, as well as how the media portrays them.

Inspecting and Diagnosing Disrepair provides housing officers, surveyors, landlords, tenants, lawyers and environmental health inspectors with the essential information they need to record, diagnose and remedy disrepair.

Pauper policies examines how policies under the old and New Poor Laws were conceived, adopted, implemented, developed or abandoned.

This book takes up the postcolonial challenge for law and explains how the problems of legal recognition for Indigenous peoples are tied to an orthodox theory of law.

Experts believe that self-driving cars will be much safer than conventional cars.

How can we rethink ideas of policy failure to consider its paradoxes and contradictions as a starting point for more hopeful democratic encounters?

`The Prevention Society' is a definition that can otherwise be summarized as: the information society, the risk society, the surveillance society or the insecure society.