Social law and Medical law

A key text for doctors, this revised, expanded and updated edition now includes a section on understanding one's own attitudes and empathy, and greatly enhanced material on communication strategies and skills.

Paul Rock began studying sociological criminology in 1961 and his intellectual history has run parallel to and in conversation with the evolution of the discipline over that long period.

Rewriting Nature is a cogent, riveting interdisciplinary exploration of the law, science, and policy of emerging genome-editing technology.

This book presents a legal genealogy of biodiversity - of its strategic use before and after the adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 1993.

Practice issues surrounding the legal concept of capacity are of fundamental importance to social work.

Now in its second edition, Cybercrime: Key Issues and Debates provides a valuable overview of this fast-paced and growing area of law.

This book brings together insights and perspectives from leading medical, legal, and business professionals, as well as academics and other members of civil society, on the threats and opportunities to life during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Civil Partnership Act 2004 and the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 are important legal, social and historical landmarks, rich in symbolic, material and cultural meanings.

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

The book discusses boundaries of electoral inclusion and mechanisms of electoral representation in contemporary democracies.

During the past decade, a remarkable transference of responsibility to Indigenous children's organisation has taken place in many parts of Australia, Canada, the USA and New Zealand.

How should we understand transgenderism, especially as it affects children and adolescents?

This book presents an argument that intelligent design is a well-designed marketing plan aimed at imposing a theistic naturalism in schools and scientific discourse.

The emergence of the terms 'pink tax' and 'tampon tax' in everyday language suggests that women, who already suffer from an economic disadvantage due to the gender wage gap, are put in an even more detrimental position by means of 'discriminatory consumption taxes'.

The Origins of Criminology: A Reader is a collection of nineteenth-century texts from the key originators of the practice of criminology - selected, introduced, and with commentaries by the leading scholar in this area, Nicole Rafter.

The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) is grounded in the human rights perspective.

Current Legal Issues, like its sister volume Current Legal Problems (now available in journal format), is based upon an annual colloquium held at University College London.

Safety professionals must prepare every day to safeguard their employees in the workplace.

In this book, Feldman and Frondorf explain how companies employ strategies that block generic medicines from the market and keep prices high.

This book examines the process and purpose of sentencing in the criminal justice system, beyond the confines of its legalistic aspects.

This book demonstrates similarities in health inequities afflicting Black and disabled people in America to support collaborative, intersectional health justice advocacy.

The right to genetic information is considered here from the standpoint of individuals, their relatives, insurers and the state.

This book critically assesses legal frameworks involving the bulk processing of personal data, initially collected by the private sector, to predict and prevent crime through advanced profiling technologies.

Within contemporary society the themes of globalization, health and regulation interlock in complex patterns, changing in response to the mix of cultural differences, regulatory preferences and available resources.

When Misfortune Becomes Injustice surveys the progress and challenges in deploying human rights to advance health and social equality over recent decades.

Adult Protection and the Law in Scotland provides a guide to the general principles of legislation in relation to adult protection.

This book develops a sociological account of lie detection practices and uses this to think about lying more generally.

Die Basics des Wohngeldrechts - praxisnah und kompakt!

This book questions what sovereignty looks like when it is de-ontologised; when the nothingness at the heart of claims to sovereignty is unmasked and laid bare.

This book presents a clear and precise account of the structure and content of Max Weber's sociology of law: situating its methodological and epistemological specificity in relation to other approaches to the sociology of law; as well as offering a critical evaluation of Weber's usefulness for contemporary socio-legal research.

Extremely gender variant children and adolescents (minors), increasingly referred to as 'trans' or 'transgender children,' are small in number.

In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in the role of the prison as a source of political ideas and site of political engagement, as well as in the prisoner's quest for citizenship.

This rigorous yet reader-friendly book reviews the state of the science on a broad range of psychological issues commonly encountered in the forensic context.

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

The EU now possesses a clear legal basis for taking action on criminal law matters and steering the policy and practice of Member States in relation to crime and criminal law.

The vast majority of healthcare is provided safely and effectively.

What does the right to the continuous improvement of living conditions in Article 11(1) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights really mean and how can it contribute to social change?

The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the UN General Assembly in 2015 represents the latest attempt by the international community to live up to the challenges of a planet that is out of control.

This book aims to produce lawyers who can debate, criticise and change professional ethics as well as understand their underlying rationale.

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.

Internet Child Abuse: Current Research and Policy provides a timely overview of international policy, legislation and offender management and treatment practice in the area of Internet child abuse.

First published in 1998, reissued here with a new preface, this volume is the first full-length discussion of women's experiences in the solicitors' profession in the UK.

This book rethinks the city by examining its various forms of collectivity - their atmospheres, modes of exclusion and self-organization, as well as how they are governed - on the basis of a critical discussion of the notion of urban commons.

Judicial Education has greatly expanded in common law countries in the past 25 years.

In the realm of safety management, this book embarks on a profound exploration of how the political economy was reshaped in the last two decades.

This book provides a critical psychosocial analysis of legal practice, documenting a mental health crisis among lawyers and judges and linking this crisis to a dysfunctional legal system they continue to control.

This book provides a platform for presenting machine learning (ML)-enabled healthcare techniques and offers a mathematical and conceptual background of the latest technology.