Social law and Medical law

This volume informs physical therapists, occupational therapists, and rehabilitation technologists about the devices that are available today and provides important background information on these devices.

America may be one of the wealthiest countries in the world, yet its citizens have lower life expectancy, more infant mortalities, and higher adolescent death rates than those in most other advanced industrial nations--and even some developing countries.

Humanbiotechnology has progressed immensely, and humanbiotechnological research has entered a crucial stage.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has augmented human activities and unlocked opportunities for many sectors of the economy.

This book addresses the issues and methods involved in governing risks posed by genetically modified (GM) agriculture.

This new addition to Hart Publishing's Landmark Cases series brings together leading figures in the field to discuss a selection of the most significant cases in medical law.

In Scandinavian countries immigration is a sensitive issue and legislators' approach to the questions it has raised has varied over the years.

This book offers a social theoretical analysis of imaginaries as constituent social forces of positive law and politics.

Smith and Monkcom: The Law of Gambling, Fourth Edition provides a detailed and practical explanation of legislation covering casinos, betting shops, bingo halls, amusement arcades, pubs and clubs with gaming machines and lotteries.

Combining the latest work of leading sentencing and punishment scholars from twelve different countries, this major new international volume answers key questions in the study of sentencing and society.

As cultural, social, political, and historical objects, guns are rich with complex and contested significance.

The United States has not updated the Electoral College system since the Twelfth Amendment was ratified in 1804, despite public opinion polls showing a majority of Americans are in favor of changing or outright abolishing it.

The constant advances in diagnostic imaging have had an impact on the practice, attitudes, and moral values of all who participate in health care.

Entlohnungsverträge für Manager, bei denen die Bezüge an den Wert des Unter­ nehmens gebunden werden, sind in den USA weit verbreitet.

This book focuses on a border police collaboration project in the Baltic Sea area aiming at fighting cross-border crimes.

In the last few decades university teaching has been recognised as an activity which can be studied and improved through educational scholarship.

Provides health professionals with a single, accessible, and interesting source to prepare for the field of occupational and environmental medicine.

The growth of Islam both worldwide and particularly in the United States is especially notable among African-American inmates incarcerated in American state and federal penitentiaries.

While the American legal system has played an important role in shaping the field of bioethics, Law and Bioethics is the first book on the subject designed to be accessible to readers with little or no legal background.

This collection brings together legal scholars and Christian theologians for an interdisciplinary conversation responding to the challenges of global migration.

Explains why the constitutional jurisprudence of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea is converging, and provides analysis of relevant case law.

Persons with disabilities report high levels of harassment worldwide, often based on intersectional characteristics such as race, gender and age.

This leading textbook places medical decision-making in its legal context and provides practical guidance on the most ethically challenging cases that face the courts.

Through a wide range of international and interdisciplinary case studies, this book develops the notion of legacy, and in particular, 'living legacy'- that is, it explores power relations in the context of time as a means to considering and challenging social injustice.

The globalisation of research has resulted in the increased location of research involving humans in developing countries.

An evaluation of intergenerational justice in charity law.

This book discusses the conflicting discourse around GM crops in India.

There is more to parking law than just parking penalties.

Die soziale Pflegeversicherung (SPV) besteht seit dem 1.

This volume explores in depth femicide and feminicide, bringing together our current knowledge on this phenomenon and its prevention.

This second edition of Legal and Ethical Dictionary for Mental Health Professionals confronts the problems arising from a lack of clear understanding of mental health laws or terminologies.

All institutions concerned with the process of judging - whether it be deciding between alternative courses of action, determining a judge's professional integrity, assigning culpability for an alleged crime, or ruling on the credibility of an asylum claimant - are necessarily directly concerned with the question of doubt.

Technologies like CRISPR and gene drives are ushering in a new era of genetic engineering, wherein the technical means to modify DNA are cheaper, faster, more accurate, more widely accessible, and with more far-reaching effects than ever before.

This book contributes to the study of collective memory and the sociology of terrorism by analysing the role of memorialization in relation to terrorism, its victims, and the broader society.

How do you apply the principles, structures and processes of the law to everyday practice?

Schritt für Schritt durch alle aktuellen FormulareImmer mehr Rentnerinnen und Rentner müssen Steuern zahlen – dank steigender Renten und Alterseinkünftegesetz.

This book explores the relationships between property and the concept of sovereignty from a number of different perspectives.

This edited collection provides a timely review of the current state of hate speech research in Asia and Europe, through the comparative examples of Korea, Japan and France.

We are living in a world where power abuse has become the new norm, as well as the biggest, silent driver of persistent inequalities, racism and human rights violations.

The criminalisation of healthcare malpractice has become a highly topical and somewhat controversial question in recent years.

Statistics and evidence-based medicine are assessed in most postgraduate and undergraduate medical examinations and degrees in health sciences.

BayPsychKHG verständlich erklärtDas Buch erläutert die Vorschriften und Ausführungsbestimmungen des Bayerische Psychisch-Kranken-Hilfe-Gesetzes (BayPsychKHG) kompakt und gut verständlich.

CLINICAL RESEARCH AND THE LAW The legal implications of conducting clinical research and trials are becoming more complex.

This book provides essential information on the legal rights of employers and employees in Turkey, plus up-to-date sections on wages, working hours, employment contracts, discrimination laws, and unions.

Coercive medico-legal interventions are often employed to prevent people deemed to be unable to make competent decisions about their health, such as minors, people with mental illness, disability or problematic alcohol or other drug use, from harming themselves or others.

Consent is used in many different social and legal contexts with the pervasiveunderstanding that it is, and has always been, about autonomy - but has it?

Law touches more and more upon the daily practice of medical professionals.

Within the global phenomenon of the (re)emergence of religion into issues of public debate, one of the most salient issues confronting contemporary Muslim societies is how to relate the legal and political heritage that developed in pre-modern Islamic polities to the political order of the modern states in which Muslims now live.