Social law and Medical law

Health is a matter of fundamental importance in European societies, both as a human right in itself, and as a factor in a productive workforce and therefore a healthy economy.

The fourth edition of this popular text has been expanded to accommodate social workers' continuing need for a thorough grounding in the statutory framework of local authority practice and the wider legal context of social work in the statutory and voluntary sectors.

Controversies in Innocence Cases in America brings together leading experts on the investigation, litigation, and scholarly analysis of innocence cases in America, from legal, political and ethical perspectives.

Remorse is a powerful, important and yet academically neglected emotion.

Psychopaths constitute less than 1% of the general population but over 20% of prison populations.

The World Heritage community is currently adopting policies to mainstream human rights as part of a wider sustainability agenda.

The relationship between health and law in not new but the relation is multifaceted.

This title was first published in 2001.

How does justice for non-citizens look like?

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 was a major update to the UK's laws on the use and regulation of reproductive technology and assisted reproduction.

This volume argues that legislation on abortion, adultery, and rape has been central to the formation of the modern citizen.

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

This book constitutes the first comprehensive publication on the duty of care of internationalorganizations towards their civilian personnel sent on missions and assignments outsideof their normal place of activity.

The interaction between individual rights, which are often seen in secular terms, and religion is becoming an important and complex topic not only for academic study but for practical policy.

Juristen, Ärzte, Pharmakologen und Apotheker finden in diesem Werk drei wesentliche Aspekte des Medizinrechts: das Arztrecht, das Arzneimittelrecht und das Recht der Medizinprodukte.

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

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Das Buch stellt - unter Einbeziehung medizinischer Erkenntnisse - ausführlich die in den USA bestehende Rechtslage zur Immunschwächekrankheit Aids dar und vergleicht sie mit dem deutschen Rechtszustand.

This book examines the relationship between intellectual property in pharmaceuticals and access to medicines from a human rights perspective, with a view to contributing to the development of a human rights framework that can guide States in enacting and implementing intellectual property law and policy.

This work examines the ability of existing and evolving PMC regulation to adequately control private force, and it challenges the capacity of international law to deliver accountability in the event of private military company (PMC) misconduct.

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.

In a culture obsessed with law, judgment, and violence, this book challenges Christians to remember that Jesus urged his followers to judge no one, bring harm upon no one, and follow no law save the law of altruistic love.

This comprehensive book brings together reflections, lessons and insights relating to the post Covid-19 era in Zimbabwe.

A homicide committed by a mentally disordered person who is under the care of health service professionals is a shocking event.

Exploiting the rich information found in electronic health records (EHRs) can facilitate better medical research and improve the quality of medical practice.

Scholars from medicine, law and related disciplines examine the ethical and legal challenges raised by AI in digital healthcare.

Europeanization of Judicial Review argues that the higher complexity of the political framework in which laws are made today leads to less well-designed laws and loop-holes, allowing politicians to leave decisions to the courts.

This book engages with a traditional yet persistent question of legal theory - what is law?

This book explores a variety of social risks and possible policy options that could be put in place to either prevent, or lessen the negative consequences of their materialisation.

This key collection brings together a selection of papers commissioned and published by the Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law & Society.

Arguing that law must be looked at holistically, this book investigates the 'hidden gender' of the so-called neutral or objective legal principles that structure the law addressing violence against women.

This book provides insight into the globally interlinked disability rights community and its political efforts today.

The problem of social control has constituted the acid test for the entire issue of immigration and integration.

This book critically examines the proper role of the law in protecting job security in the contemporary workplace.

Many prosecutors and commentators have praised the victim provisions at the International Criminal Court (ICC) as 'justice for victims', which for the first time include participation, protection and reparations.

A collection of essays which focus on the relationship between judicial review and bureaucratic behaviour.

This title was first published in 2001.

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

In recent years, transnational private regulations (TPRs) have gained importance in the areas of business and human rights, particularly from a consumer point of view.

The Property Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: Beyond Restitution pursues a rigorous examination of the various ways in which the protection of housing and property rights can contribute to durable solutions to displacement.

To many, the rejections of the Constitutional Treaty by Dutch and French voters in 2005 came as a shock.

This book approaches law as a process embedded in transnational personal, religious, communicative and economic relationships that mediate between international, national and local practices, norms and values.

This book explores the practical and theoretical opportunities as well as the challenges raised by the expansion of transitional justice into new and 'aparadigmatic' cases.

Angesichts des hohen Stellenwertes, den sowohl das Phänomen des Abrechnungsbetrugs im Gesundheitswesen als auch die Forderung nach einer evidenzbasierten Kriminalprävention im öffentlichen Diskurs angenommen hat, beschäftigt sich die Arbeit erstmals mit Evaluationsfragestellungen im Zusammenhang mit der Tätigkeit der § 197a SGB V-Einheiten.

This book explores how we can re-constitute our approach to analysing and empirically investigating the organisation of white-collar and corporate crimes, with a view to building fuller theoretical and empirical accounts.

The sole available comprehensive history of social law and the model of social welfare in Germany.

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