Social law and Medical law

Investigating the unique EU-CARICOM legal relationship, this book exploresthe major theme of globalisation, which shapes inter-regional organisationsindividually and determines their relationship to one another.

Have we gone too far in enacting laws, promulgating regulations and announcing policies that threaten freedom of association, either now or 'in waiting' for the future?

Information society projects promise wealth and better services to those countries which digitise and encourage the consumer and citizen to participate.

While international criminal courts have often been declared as bringing 'justice' to victims, their procedures and outcomes historically showed little reflection of the needs and interests of victims themselves.

This book brings together some of the most respected Asian and Australasian experts on medical liability to provide insightful perspectives on civil and criminal law from selected Australasian jurisdictions.

Erudite and timely, this book is a key contribution to the renewal of radical theory and politics.

This book explores the interplay between sovereignty, politics and law through different conceptualizations of sovereignty.

Many countries confront similar human rights controversies, but, despite the claimed universality of human rights values they are not always resolved in the same way.

This text, edited by experienced academic and private otolaryngologists at different points in their careers, as well as an attorney, reviews the current literature related to otolaryngology malpractice litigation, and discusses strategies to decrease liability and enhance patient safety.

Law relating to mental disorder and to the mentally disordered has rarely been the subject of such extensive and heated debate.

With advances in personalised medicine, the field of medical law is being challenged and transformed.

The 2nd Edition of Who Owns You, David Koepsell s widely acclaimed exploration of the philosophical and legal problems of patenting human genes, is updated to reflect the most recent changes to the cultural and legal climate relating to the practice of gene patenting.

This book investigates how humanitarians balance the laws and principles of civilian protection with the realities of contemporary warzones, where non-state armed actors assert cultural, political and religious traditions that are often at odds with official frameworks.

This collection of essays emphasizes society's increasingly responsible engagement with ethical challenges in emerging medical technology.

"Cuando hablamos de educación es relativamente fácil apreciar la relación que en todo proceso educativo se efectúa entre los alumnos menores de edad, sus padres y los profesores y demás autoridades del colegio.

Consent: Legacies, Representations, and Frameworks for the Future examines the conceptualisation of 'consent' across various historical periods, cultures, and disciplines to offer an expansive, pluralistic vision for future articulations of consent as it circulates throughout contemporary life in sexual encounters, medical contexts, and media representations.

Dieses Buch analysiert die Rechtslage in Bezug auf Patientenakten in Deutschland.

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

Presenting a unique blend of historical and contemporary research from a range of interdisciplinary and theoretical analysis, this book examines the intersection of 'race', gender and national identity.

The debate about whether mental health law should be abolished or reformed emerged during the negotiations of the Convention on the Right of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and has raged fiercely for over a decade.

Demonstrates the enormous impact that the use of technology is having, and will continue to have, on arbitration.

The intense interest in 'offender profiling' generated by FBI special agents, gave rise to an explosion of studies in a new area called 'investigative psychology' by its originator David Canter.

Approximately half of the total UK population are in receipt of one or more welfare benefits, giving rise to the largest single area of government expenditure.

The first book of its kind dedicated to an assessment of the legality of boxing, The Legality of Boxing: A Punch Drunk Love?

More than twenty-five years after the collapse of the Socialist bloc, the nature of the regimes in Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1989 continues to evade the attempts of political theorists and scholars of post-communism to define and classify them.

The Irish health system is confronted by a range of challenges, both emerging and recurring.

All human behaviour is, ultimately, a moral undertaking, in which each situation must be considered on its own merits.

Thirty years ago, English jurist Patrick Devlin wrote: "e;Is it not a pleasant tribute to the medical profession that by and large it has been able to manage its relations with its patients .

This book presents a ground-breaking, interdisciplinary study into the various goals assigned to international criminal trials.

Now in its fourth edition, Fraud and Misconduct in Biomedical Research boasts an impressive list of contributors from around the globe and introduces a new focus for the book, transforming it from a series of monographs into a publication that will quickly become an essential textbook on all areas of research fraud and misconduct.

Criminologists in the Media presents the results of a cross-national study examining the structures that shape criminologists' contributions to news and social media discourse.

Routledge Readings on Law and Social Justice: Dispossessions, Marginalities, Rights presents some of the finest essays on social justice, rights and public policy.

This book addresses how law and public policy cause or exacerbate vulnerability in individuals and groups.

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

Every day, thousands of people quietly face decisions as agonizing as those made famous in the Terri Schiavo case.

This title was first published in 2001.

This book explores the response of forensic psychiatry and psychology to changes over the last several decades.

This book offers readers a comprehensive and in-depth legal analysis of corporate social responsibility (CSR) by examining the theoretical foundations of corporate governance and its legal mechanism in the United States and South Korea.

It is increasingly held that international commercial arbitration is becoming colonized by litigation.

Utilizing a comparative examination of case-law from England, Canada, the USA, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland, this volume provides a comprehensive and systematic study of the law of intervening causation (novus actus interveniens) to present an analysis of this particular judicial limitation of liability device.

This volume addresses the relationship between law and neoliberalism.

Using the best scientific evidence, Drugs: America's Holy War explores the impact and cost of America's "e;War on Drugs"e; - both in tax spending and in human terms.

This book advocates for a novel doctrine of 'total lawfare' as part of a comprehensive approach to modern hybrid warfare.