Social law and Medical law

This book examines the potential for regionalisation of intellectual property law and policy as a means of improving pharmaceutical access for least developed countries.

The new third edition of Medicine, Ethics and the Law takes account of the numerous cases and proposed legislative changes that have taken place in Ireland since the last edition in 2011.

First published in 1999, this book breaks new ground by treating the restrictive covenant from the aspect of the control of land use.

First published in 1999, the overall aim of the book is to provide a comprehensive critical guide to the theory and practice of residential care.

A rich collection of interdisciplinary essays, this book explores the question: what is to be found at the intersection of the sensorium and law's empire?

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

Across the country ambulances are turned away from emergency departments (EDs) and patients are waiting hours and sometimes days to be admitted to a hospital room.

This book examines the complex relationship between politics and hate speech laws, domestic and international.

Michele Goodwin and a group of contributing experts examine the ways in which Westerners create families through private, market processes.

First Published in 2004: Effective Expert Witnessing, Fourth Edition broadens the scope of previous editions by featuring case studies and examples from a wide range of disciplines including psychology, medicine, forensics, toxicology, engineering, and environmental science.

Judging and Emotion investigates how judicial officers understand, experience, display, manage and deploy emotions in their everyday work, in light of their fundamental commitment to impartiality.

The French version of this book was the winner of the 2022 Grand Prix de la Protection Sociale.

The first sustained consideration of the law of charity from a liberal philosophical perspective.

Escape Routes: Contemporary Perspectives on Life After Punishment addresses the reasons why people stop offending, and the processes by which they are rehabilitated or resettled back into the community.

This highly regarded book is a comprehensive and up to date guide to mental health law in Scotland.

This book is a critical analysis of several of the most disaster-prone regions in Asia.

This book fills a gap in the literature by presenting a comprehensive overview of the key issues relating to law and development in Asia.

Autonomy is often said to be the dominant ethical principle in modern bioethics, and it is also important in law.

In the context of global efforts to control the production, distribution and use of narcotic drugs, China's treatment of the problem provides an important means of understanding the social, political, and economic limits of national and international policies to regulate drug practices.

This book presents a socio-legal examination of national and devolved-level developments in social protection in the UK, through the eyes of politicians and officials at the heart of this process.

This volume investigates advances in the field of legal translation both from a theoretical and practical perspective, with professional and academic insights from leading experts in the field.

This book provides theoretical foundations and practical guidelines for an ethically competent integration of Islam and mental health practice.

This book responds to a previously unmet need: unlocking the mysteries of Social Security disability programs and providing medical and mental health clinicians, as well as advocates, with the information necessary to act in the best interests of their clients.

In order for the information society to realise its full potential, personal data has to be disclosed, used and often shared.

Human trafficking captured the attention of the global community well over a decade ago, inspiring multifarious international, national, regional and local responses.

This book provides a nuanced and timely contribution to the question of vulnerability in police custody.

Competing Sovereignties provides a critique of the concept of sovereignty in modernity in light of claims to determine the content of law at the international, national and local levels.

This book critically examines the colonial dimensions of restorative justice through the lens of justice policy reform in Jamaica.

Understanding Victimology: An Active-Learning Approach explains what the field of victimology is-including its major theoretical perspectives and research methods-and provides insight into the dynamics of various offline and online crimes from the victims' vantage point.

The globalization of housing finance led to the global financial crisis, which has created new barriers to adequate and affordable housing.

Prior to the implementation of the Equal Opportunity program in the 1960s, most New Brunswickers, many of them Francophone, lived with limited access to welfare, education, and health services.

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.

In 1918 a young Carl Schmitt published a short satirical fiction entitled The Buribunks.

Latin America has amassed comprehensive expertise in generating, managing, and providing access to archives documenting widespread human rights violations.

When cannabis tincture was withdrawn from the medical establishment in the UK in 1973, cannabis became regulated solely as an illicit drug.

This comprehensive Handbook serves as a unique synthesis and resource for understanding how analytical frameworks developed within the literature assist in understanding the nature and management of commons resources.

This book is about the regulation of corporations that use bribery in international commerce to win or maintain overseas business contracts and interests.

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

This handbook provides a timely synthesis of the international literature that investigates men's experiences of intimate partner violence and help seeking behavior, and considers what the findings mean for research, practice, and policy.

This book discusses the role of private law as an instrument to produce financial and social inclusion in a context characterised by the redefinition of the role of the State and by the financialisation of society.

This book explores the historical and social foundations of Canadian higher education and provides a detailed analysis of university boards within this broader context of university governance.

Decisions at the End of Life is the last volume in a trilogy on Aging conceived for the International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine.

Drawing on extensive data including news media reports and commentaries, documentaries, courts and court reports, films, websites, professional literature and government and non-government agencies, this book explores the 'Alzheimerisation' of the euthanasia debate, examining the shift in recent years in public attitudes towards the desirability and moral permissibility of euthanasia as an end-of-life 'solution' for people living with the disease - not just at its end stage, but also at earlier stages.

This collection brings together lawyers and theologians in the U.

Drawing on theories of legal pluralism, this book tests whether and to what extent claims of the modern nation-state laws to exclusive dominance over other spheres are tenable, and reassesses the operation of law in society.