Social law and Medical law

A practical, accessible and informative guide to overcoming and managing a wide spread affliction!

Set in different national contexts (Brazil, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Laos, Norway, Thailand) and in different social science disciplines, the chapters of this volume aim at questioning anti-trafficking policies and their practical impact on sex work regulation.

Issues spawned by the headlong pace of developments in science and technology fill the courts.

How is it possible that the desire for a perfectly safe world with perfectly safe workplaces helps generate the opposite?

This book details how, in poor communities, access to healthcare and social support is linked to punishment systems.

Marijuana is the most widely used illegal drug in the world.

This book studies the struggles for basic legal freedoms in the work and political mobilization of defense lawyers in China''s criminal justice system.

This book introduces a framework to assist human resource practitioners and organisations embrace strategies that will drive high engagement levels within organisations with a union presence.

The past two decades have seen rapid development of micro-/nanotechnologies with the integration of chemical engineering, biomedical engineering, chemistry, and life sciences to form bio-MEMS or lab-on-chip devices that help us perform cellular analysis in a complex micro-/nanoflluidic environment with minimum sample consumption and have potential biomedical applications.

This volume examines the legal dimension of the ILO's action in the field of Child Labour.

In a world in which media images of crime and deviance proliferate, where every facet of offending is reflected in a 'vast hall of mirrors', Framing Crime: Cultural Criminology and the Image makes sense of the increasingly blurred line between the real and the virtual.

Mental health laws exist in many countries to regulate the involuntary detention and treatment of individuals with serious mental illnesses.

This ground-breaking book takes a fresh look at potential non-litigation solutions to providing personal injury compensation.

'Inquisitorial processes' refers to the inquiry powers of administrative governance and this book examines the use of these powers in administrative law across seven jurisdictions.

This book addresses critical questions about how legal development works in practice.

Text, Cases and Materials on Medical Law and Ethics presents a valuable collection of materials relating to often controversial areas of the law.

In the past decade, right-wing efforts to end legal abortion in the United States have reached a fever pitch, with anti-abortion legislation being introduced in several "e;red"e;-and even some "e;purple"e;-states.

Proponents of the concept of ecological integrity argue that it is a necessary component of global governance on which the sustainable future of the planet and its inhabitants depends.

This book is a nuanced study of healthcare provision and health systems governance in the Kurdistan Region in Iraq (KRI).

This edited book presents international perspectives on the role of mental health problems in understanding and managing the risk of violent extremism.

This book asks what is European consumer access to justice, and how we can improve it by means of procedural and substantive laws?

Overwhelmingly, critical practitioners working across a range of human service fields, who are committed to emancipatory and progressive social change ideals, report feeling powerless, alienated from the means of change, and hopeless about their capacities to make a difference in the lives of the individuals, groups or communities with whom they work because of restrictive contexts that ultimately determine the nature and parameters of their work.

The history of patent harmonization is a story of dynamic actors, whose interactions with established structures shaped the patent regime.

The field of transitional justice has expanded rapidly since the term first emerged in the late 1990s.

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

Cancer has become the scourge of the twentieth century.

This book examines the role of law in regulating and influencing the lived experiences of posted workers in Europe.

Despite recent reforms to the Turkish Penal Code, the country retains a high level of honour-based violence.

Although over the last two decades there has been a proliferation of gender studies, transgender has largely remained institutionalised as an 'umbrella term' that encapsulates all forms of gender understandings differing from what are thought to be gender norms.

Das Kollektivarbeitsrecht, das im Mittelpunkt des zweiten Lehrbuchbandes steht, gibt dem Arbeitsrecht seine Besonderheit.

This book makes the case that far too much work undertaken under the banner of 'behavioural safety' is overly person-focused.

Members of racial groups are protected under international law against genocide, persecution, and apartheid.

Bringing together cutting edge and diverse research from international and interdisciplinary perspectives, this book initiates and shapes conversations about transgender people within the criminal justice system.

Designed specifically with mental health professionals in mind, The Bilingual Counselor's Guide to Spanish is perfect for counselors interested in expanding their client base and language skill set.

What are the consequences when law's stories and images migrate from the courtroom to the court of public opinion and from movie, television and computer screens back to electronic monitors inside the courtroom itself?

Recent advances in medical technology have provided healthcare staff with the possibility of maintaining the life of a brain-dead pregnant woman on life-support in order to achieve successful delivery of the foetus.

This book provides a clear introduction to the Mental Capacity Act (MCA, 2005), offering an easy reference guide to the complex issues enshrined within the Act to inform the everyday practice of those who need to perform within its parameters as part of their day-to-day work.

The problem of prostitution, sex work or sex for sale can often be misunderstood, if we do not take into consideration its spatial, temporal and political context.

From the tone of the report by the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Re- search, one might conclude that the whole-brain-oriented definition of death is now firmly established as an enduring element of public policy.

This title was first published in 2002.

Mason explores aspects of pregnancy which involve medico-legal intervention, including unwanted or undesired pregnancies.

This book covers an extensive range of issues raised by biotechnological advancements from a regulatory perspective.

This edited collection brings together a range of experts on surrogacy, at a time when the law in the UK has been fully reconsidered for the first time in generations.

This book provides insights into the complex labour and social security framework of EU employment and its enforcement.

Drugs, Crime and Public Health provides an accessible but critical discussion of recent policy on illicit drugs.

This volume purports to explore the legal and political issues triggered by the new wave of secessionism.

Recent years have seen the development of a growing international literature on restorative justice, community justice and reintegrative alternatives to formal criminal justice processes.