Social law and Medical law

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

Despite a more reflective concern over the past 20 years with marginalised voices, justice from below, power relations and the legitimacy of mechanisms and processes, scholarship on transitional justice has remained relatively silent on the question of 'resistance'.

This is a comprehensive comparative legal, practical and theoretical analysis of workplace inequalities experienced by workers with psychosocial disabilities.

This book investigates how African authors and artists have explored themes of the future and technology within their works.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of land law for Arab Palestinians under Israeli law.

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This coursebook offers an exciting new approach to teaching criminal law to graduate and undergraduate students, and indeed to the general public.

Crime perpetrated by healthcare professionals is increasingly pervasive in today's hospitals and other healthcare settings.

This book is to help you understand the main ethical and legal details you need to know in order to practice medicine safely and well.

Imagining New Legalities reminds us that examining the right to privacy and the public/private distinction is an important way of mapping the forms and limits of power that can legitimately be exercised by collective bodies over individuals and by governments over their citizens.

The reach of free movement within the EU Internal Market and what constitutes a restriction are the topics of this book.

This book argues for the utility of human rights in the practice of ocean governance.

Capital punishment policies in the USA are almost always justified by an individualistic belief in either rational choice or dispositional attribution, which justifies the death penalty either as a deterrent, or for retributive or incapacitative purposes.

What does Carl Schmitt have to offer to ongoing debates about sovereignty, globalization, spatiality, the nature of the political, and political theology?

Die zunehmende Ressourcenknappheit im Gesundheitswesen bei raschem medizinischem, technischem und wissenschaftlichem Fortschritt erfordert ein ökonomisches Denken.

This book brings together a range of theoretical perspectives to consider fundamental questions of health law and the place of the body within it.

This book draws on concrete cases of collaboration between anthropologists and legal practitioners to critically assess the use of anthropological expertise in a variety of legal contexts from the point of view of the anthropologist as well as of the decision-maker or legal practitioner.

This book focuses on the ethical, aesthetic, and scholarly dimensions of how genocide-related works of art, documentary films, poetry and performance, museums and monuments, music, dance, image, law, memory narratives, spiritual bonds, and ruins are translated and take place as translations of acts of genocide.

A completely updated guide to the laws and regulations governing charitable giving This fully updated Fifth Edition of The Tax Law of Charitable Giving is the definitive resource for nonprofit lawyers, accountants, and fundraising professionals charged with navigating the increasingly complex maze of charitable giving regulations.

The passage of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA) in 1979 was a watershed moment in the movement to protect cultural objects against looting.

A Study of Mixed Legal Systems: Endangered, Entrenched, or Blended takes the reader on a fascinating voyage of discovery.

Many books have been published about physician-assisted death.

Introduction and investigation of the concept – and utility – of legacy in the field of medical jurisprudence.

Cosmopolitan Justice and its Discontents pursues a reflection upon the institutional orders designed to ensure respect for the rule of law, human rights, and social justice.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the illicit practice of football trafficking, focusing on the exploitation of underage African players being transferred to Europe.

In this book, a global panel of experts considers the international implications of legalised euthanasia based on experiences from Belgium.

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In New Zealand, as well as in Australia, Canada and other comparable jurisdictions, Indigenous peoples comprise a significantly disproportionate percentage of the prison population.

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This book examines how the democratic form and the struggle for democracy reflects, influences and shapes the struggle for social emancipation.

Auslegung und Inhaltskontrolle von urheberrechtlichen Wahrnehmungsverträgen spielen in der Gerichtspraxis eine erhebliche Rolle.

The chapters in this book explore the impact of recent shifts in global and regional power and the subsequent development and enforcement of international refugee protection standards in the Asia Pacific region.

The Legal Aid Society's mission is to advance, defend, and enforce the legal rights of low-income and otherwise vulnerable people in order to secure for them the basic necessities of life.

Hosoi, Tatsuno and Pratt examine the realities, problems and backgrounds of crimes committed by elderly people in both Japan and international perspectives.

Contemporary legal reasoning has more in common with fictional discourse than we tend to realize.

This volume provides a series of critical analyses of some of the contemporary debates in relation to the human rights of children, resituating them within visions which informed the text of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989.

In this book, Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson turn their well-polished therapy microscopes onto the subjects of lying, falsehood, deceit, and the loss of trust in the counseling room.

The baby boom generation were born between 1946 and 1964 and are the largest population cohort in US history.

This title was first published in 2002: The issue of immigration and crime in all of its many contexts and forms, is a problem which affects numerous countries throughout the world.

This book reinterprets the notion of the commons by tracing how it has been mobilised in the aftermath of economic crisis.

This book is concerned with critically analysing the importance of the status of knowledge in establishing 'truth' about female defendants convicted of murder during the 20th Century.

A comprehensive discussion of a number of current and emerging governance issues in EU health policy.

This book examines global health problems through the lens of public and international law, focusing on access to essential medicines.

At the intersection of law, feminism and philosophy, this book analyses the ways in which certain bodies and 'selves' continue to be treated as monstrous aberrations from the 'ideal' figure or norm.

This book takes the concept of piracy as a starting point to discuss the instability of property as a social construction and how this is spatially situated.

Organised Sexual Abuse offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary investigation of this phenomenon.

This book provides a clear and concise description of the multifaceted notion of psychotherapeutic competencies, building on years of research and training and informed by a systemic approach.