Social law and Medical law

Questions of evidence and proof are fundamental to the operation of substantive law and to our understanding of law as a social practice.

Caregiving is inevitably fraught with complex issuesemotional as well as medical, financial, and legal.

Reading Modern Law identifies and elaborates upon key critical methodologies for reading and writing about law in modernity.

Drawing on the expertise of several well-known figures in the medical, neuropsychological, and legal professions, Forensic Evaluation of Traumatic Brain Injury: A Handbook for Clinicians and Attorneys, Second Edition provides a concise, general overview of the forensic assessment process and the issues surrounding Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).

This book critically examines the concept of "e;embeddedness"e;: the core concept of an economic sociology of law (ESL).

Panoramic and provocative in its scope, this handbook is the definitive guide to contemporary issues associated with male sex work and a must read for those who study masculinities, male sexuality, sexual health, and sexual cultures.

This book offers a multifaceted look at Northeast India and the customs and traditions that underpin its legal framework.

This book explores the legal and ethical implications - both challenges and opportunities - of using big data in health care and research.

This volume examines the legal status of religion in education, both public and non-public, in the United States and seven other nations.

This book explores the recent trend toward the transformation of religious symbols and practices into culture in Western democracies.

This book investigates the ethical values that inform the global carbon integrity system, and reflects on alternative norms that could or should do so.

This book investigates the dynamic intertwinement of law and morality, with a focus on new and developing fields of law.

This book covers technologies that pose new challenges for consumer policy, creative developments that can help protect consumers' economic interests, innovative approaches to addressing perennial consumer concerns, and the challenges entailed by emerging ways of creating and delivering consumer products and services.

Presenting twenty-two years of multidistrict litigation data, this book exposes a systematic lack of checks and balances in our courts.

This book provides a theory-to-practice breakdown of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and what its implications are for health and social care workers.

Immigration and its consequences is a substantially contested subject with hugely differing viewpoints.

Working with Autistic People in the Criminal Justice and Forensic Mental Health Systems: A Handbook for Practitioners is the first book to focus specifically on best practice for working with autistic people in criminal justice and forensic mental health settings.

The importance of services in the EU economy has increased exponentially in the last decades as have the number and scope of EU rules, both those liberalising the provision of services and those protecting their recipients or consumers - the passengers, patients, viewers and bank depositors.

Comparative Approaches to Law and Religion examines the methodological challenges of studying the interplay between law and religion across diverse jurisdictions.

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.

This comprehensive yet accessible resource provides readers with everything they need to know about intersex - people who are born with any range of sex characteristics that might not fit typical binary notions about male and female bodies.

This title was first published in 2001.

Migrant women across Asia disproportionately work in precarious, insecure, and informal employment sectors that are subject to few regulations, pay low wages, and expose women to harm, of which domestic work is among the most prevalent.

This book gathers international and national reports from across the globe on key questions in the field of antitrust and intellectual property.

Advances in new neuroscientific research tools and technologies have not only led to new insight into the processes of the human brain, they have also refined and provided genuinely new ways of modifying and manipulating the human brain.

Sanctuary Practices in Perspective examines the diverse, complex, and mutating practice of providing sanctuary to asylum-seekers.

The aim of this book is to examine how EU law relates to and impacts on the national social security systems of the Member States.

Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker hat eine Reihe von Beiträgen zum Urheberrecht publiziert.

This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the effectiveness of Mobility Partnerships and their consequences for third countries.

This book points to a crisis at the heart of modern family law's treatment of "e;collaborative family-making"e;: gamete contributions, surrogate motherhood, adoption, functional parenthood, foster care, and kin caregiving.

The field of human rights and the environment has grown phenomenally during the last few years and this textbook will be one of the first to encourage students to think critically about how many environmental issues lead to a violation of existing rights.

Racialized Correctional Governance examines problems in the relationship between criminology and racialized issues.

Developed over a period of some six years by teachers of the subject at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law, this book provides the first comprehensive and integrated teaching tool for the very basic field of debtor and creditor relations.

Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición del certificado de profesionalidad "ADGD0208 - GESTIÓN INTEGRADA DE RECURSOS HUMANOS".

After heart disease and cancer, the third leading cause of death in the United States is iatrogenic injury (avoidable injury or infection caused by a healer).

Cybercrimes are often viewed as technical offenses that require technical solutions, such as antivirus programs or automated intrusion detection tools.

The display of religious symbols in the public space has been the subject of much debate.

This book considers the rapidly evolving, both legally and socially, nature of image-based abuse, for both minors and adults.

This title was first published n 2000: The most recent developments in occupational health and safety regulation in the UK's offshore oil industry represent a departure from traditional legal forms.

This book addresses the ethical and methodological issues that researchers face while conducting cross-cultural social research.

Interest in social science and empirical analyses of law, courts and specifically the politics of judges has never been higher or more salient.

This timely volume provides a comprehensive examination of how the proposed new European Health Data Space (EHDS) legislation will impact upon health and genetic data, individual privacy and providers of health services.

This book is a concise introduction to the fundamental issues and debates in health care ethics.

Consent is the golden principle that determines the legality of most medical treatment.

How can multilingualism and legal certainty be reconciled in EU law?

Drawing on Sir Ian Kennedy's extensive experience in healthcare law, ethics and public policy-making, this book explores vital issues in the law surrounding healthcare and regulation.

This book provides a broad conspectus on the application of EU and international regulation of the food sector on English law.