Social law and Medical law

This new volume provides an abundance of information on new biomedical applications being used today.

This volume examines the success of the 9/11 attacks in undermining the cherished principles of Western democracy, free speech and tolerance, which were central to US values.

Gender, Homicide, and the Politics of Responsibility explores the competing and contradictory understandings of violence against women and men's responsibility.

Dieser kompakte Leitfaden beleuchtet in 15 Kapiteln die rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen der medizinischen Forschung in Deutschland.

This book explores the relationship between space, subjectivity and property in order to invert conventional socio-legal understandings of property.

Based on extensive original research, this book explores how the Indonesian Anti-Domestic Violence Law is understood and applied in practice.

This book examines what value, if any, the state has for the pursuit of progressive politics; and how it might need to be reimagined and remade to deliver transformative change.

This book examines the interpretation and application of the right to freedom of religion and belief of new minorities formed by recent migration by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC).

Assembling a series of voices from across the field, this book demonstrates how posthuman theory can be employed to better understand and tackle some of the challenges faced by contemporary international law.

This book examines the regulatory framework for untested and unapproved uses (off-label uses) of medicines in the EU, UK, and USA.

This book examines the almost entirely neglected realm of public property, identifying and describing a number of key organizing principles around which a nascent jurisprudence of public property may be developed.

The image of the pirate is at once spectral and ubiquitous.

Feminist Perspectives on Tort Law offers a distinctly feminist approach to key topics in tort law.

This collective volume delves into the criminal responsibility of judges under authoritarian regimes, with case studies from Germany, Argentina, and Chile, examining their involvement in criminal human rights abuses and failures to protect victims from such crimes.

The pervasive influence of law on medical practice and clinical bioethics is often noted with a combination of exasperation and lamentation.

Whenever the legitimacy of a new or ethically contentious medical intervention is considered, a range of influences will determine whether the treatment becomes accepted as lawful medical treatment.

This book presents a unified set of arguments about the nature of jurisprudence and its relation to the jurist's role.

This book discusses the socioeconomic effects of Right-to-Work (RTW) laws on state populations.

Recent debate over healthcare and its spiraling costs has brought medical error into the spotlight as an indicator of everything that is ineffective, inhumane, and wasteful about modern medicine.

Errors and violations harm many patients: this book explores how to improve both accountability and patient safety in healthcare.

Following the events of September 11, a new legal order is emerging in which the 'terrorist threat' has been used as justification to marginalise human rights.

Food is produced not only to be consumed in the country of its origin, but also to be exported to various locations worldwide.

Triage decision-making during a pandemic is linked to complex ethical, medical, and legal dilemmas, which in the past have been discussed mainly based on hypothetical scenarios.

This is the first research methods book on the application of using a co-production approach for physical activity for health research.

This book provides a detailed discussion of four class-action discrimination cases that have recently been settled within the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and have led to a change in the way in which the USDA supports farmers from diverse backgrounds.

Based on the findings of a large-scale, comparative research project, this volume systematically assesses the institutional design and national influence of the Open Method of Coordination in Social Inclusion and Social Protection (pensions and health/long-term care), at the European Union level and in ten EU Member States.

Scenes of violence and incisions into the flesh inform the demand for law.

This book presents a new view on the concept of solidarity and explains how it complements justice in health and social care.

Online Child Sexual Abuse: Grooming, Policing and Child Protection in a Multi-Media World addresses the complex, multi-faceted and, at times, counter-intuitive relationships between online grooming behaviours, risk assessment, police practices, and the actual danger of subsequent abuse in the physical world.

This volume presents classic and contemporary legal cases that have set important precedents related to psychological and mental health issues in criminal and civil proceedings; the role of practitioners as expert witnesses and forensic consultants; and legal concerns in general clinical practice.

This book provides a range of highly accessible approaches from Discourse Studies for analyzing legal language in legislation, documents, proceedings and in news media reporting.

Why have the early years of the 21st century seen increasing use of emergency-type powers or claims of supra-legal executive authority, particularly by the Western countries regarded as the world's leading democracies, notably the United States?

This book examines political responses to the problem of human trafficking, including proposals, actions (legislative and executive), and statements made by politicians, government agencies, and civil society organizations to solve or mitigate the crime of human trafficking.

This book approaches the gun control debate by asking what it takes to achieve acceptance of, and compliance with, gun control regulations in a community thought to be opposed and resistant.

Named a 2011 Library Journal Core Nonfiction BookThe Diabetes Manifesto gives people with Diabetes a book that will help them feel in control of their lives, regardless of their changing symptoms or disease status.

In this interdisciplinary book, experts from philosophy, medicine, law, psychology, economics, and social sciences address questions and develop solutions for a well-designed society of long life.

Navigate the extensive jurisdiction and powers of the Court of Protection.

At a time of increasing regulatory scrutiny and medico-legal risk, managing serious clinical incidents within primary care has never been more important.

As most jurisdictions move away from the death penalty, some remain strongly committed to it, while others hold on to it but use it sparingly.

The emergence of the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is transforming the management of diseases, improving diseases diagnosis and treatment methods, and reducing healthcare costs and errors.

The first resource available to guide those designing and implementing programs on teaching medical professionalism.

This title was first published in 2001.

This book analyses the history of the common law foundations of consumer law, and encourages readers to rethink the role that consumer law plays in our society.

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 COVID-19 pandemic not only ravaged human bodies but also had profound and possibly enduring effects on the health of political and legal systems, economies and societies.

Privacy can function as an expressive, anti-subordination tool of resistance that is worthy of constitutional protection.

Based on over a decade of research, this book examines the social harms of Australian prescription and non-prescription medicine regulation and how these ultimately stem from neoliberalism and its reinforcement of state and corporate power.

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