Social law and Medical law

This book focuses on the experience of social dialogue in Turkey, which is a European Union candidate country.

Rasmus Wandall uses quantitative and qualitative methods from studies carried out in Denmark, to address the formal and informal norms and ideologies that are used to generate decisions to imprison.

Euthanasia, Ethics and the Law argues that the law governing the ending of life in England and Wales is unclear, confused and often contradictory.

Angestoßen durch die Publikation „To Err is Human“ des Institute of Medicine aus dem Jahre 2000 fokussiert sich die Diskussion über Qualitätssicherung im Gesundheitswesen immer stärker auf das Thema Patientensicherheit.

What is the link between the way in which women are viewed as an aberration within law - such that pregnant women initially had to be compared with sick men to claim unfair dismissal - and the view of women as monstrous within philosophy?

An essential introduction to rights-based approaches in social policy, this text critically explores how social rights underpin human wellbeing.

What are the requirements for a just response to criminal wrongdoing?

Illuminating their breadth and diversity, this book presents a comprehensive and multidisciplinary view of legal documents and their manifold forms, uses, materialities and meanings.

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.

Research on law's relationship with time has flourished over the past decade.

This book identifies, analyses and discusses the nexus of legal issues that have emerged in recent years around sexuality and gender.

Experts believe that self-driving cars will be much safer than conventional cars.

This book provides a nuanced picture of how diverse legal debates on the pursuit of economic development and modernization have played out in Latin America since independence.

Brings together different disciplinary perspectives and new empirical insights to explore the regulation of assisted reproduction around the world.

This book breaks new ground by bringing together recent research into the determinants of marginalization risks for the unemployed and research into new social policies for combating marginalization.

Modern medicine enables us to keep many people alive after they have suffered severe brain damage and show no reliable outward signs of consciousness.

Capital punishment, serial killings, war, terrorism, abortion, honour killings, euthanasia, suicide bombings, war, and genocide: all involve the taking of life.

This book establishes legisprudence, in contrast to jurisprudence, as a legal theory of rational law-making.

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Bringing together an international group of authors, this book addresses the important issues lying at the intersection between urban space, on the one hand, and incivilities and urban harm, on the other.

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.

This book reviews the challenges and opportunities in the implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) at the regional and national levels in Africa.

This book considers how legal reforms and awareness raising associated with building the rule of law have engaged the popular legal consciousness, producing contradictions that have in turn shaped the nature of the resultant legality.

Ein grenzüberschreitend wirksames Arbeitsrecht ist in Zeiten der Globalisierung von hohem öffentlichen Interesse.

Biobanks are critical infrastructure for medical research but they are also the subject of considerable ethical and legal uncertainty.

This book demands that we question what we are told about security, using tools we have had for thousands of years.

This book contributes to the international debate on Indigenous Peoples Law, containing both in-depth research of Scandinavian historical and legal contexts with respect to the Sami and demonstrating current stances in Sami Law research.

Pauper policies examines how policies under the old and New Poor Laws were conceived, adopted, implemented, developed or abandoned.

Comprising fourteen articles by leading international contributors, including some of the most prominent socio-legal and criminological scholars working in the field, this volume is currently the only work available that critically examines W.

Completely revised and updated, the sixth edition of Practicum and Internship is a practical resource that provides students and supervisors with thorough coverage of all stages and aspects of the practicum and internship process.

This book investigates the relationship between sex and gender under international human rights law, and how this influences the formation of individual subjects.

The right to self-determination has played a crucial role in the process of assisting oppressed people to put an end to colonial domination.

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.

In the era of information and communication, issues of misinformation and miscommunication are more pressing than ever.

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.

Increased scrutiny on the part of the general public, media, and government has warranted a reexamination of corporate responsibilities, standards of accountability, the company's role in its local and extended community, and its ethical position in our society and culture.

Interrogating supply/demand from an inter- and multi-disciplinary perspective, this collection broadens engagement beyond the routine analysis of the locus of violence in prostitution and the validity of the prostitute's consent.

This book offers a critical and timely account of how labour law has become a means for protecting employers rather than workers.

Methamphetamine: A Love Storypresents an insider's view of the world of methamphetamine based on the life stories of thirty-three adults formerly immersed in using, dealing, and manufacturing meth in rural Oklahoma.

Practitioners are increasingly adopting a personalised medicine approach to individually tailored patient care, especially disease diagnosis and treatment with the use of biomarkers.

This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic.

The toll of America's gun violence epidemic is usually measured in lives lost-more than 35,000 each year.

A detailed argument of how our government has interfered in the direction of America's media landscape that traces major transformations in media since the printing press and charts a path for reform.

An original and innovative recasting of constitutionalism, written by acknowledged experts in the field, this empirically grounded and theoretically informed volume addresses the strategies and philosophies that judges and lawyers bring to bear when creating European constitutional jurisprudence; investigating and promoting promotes the sustainability of a theory or praxis of 'procedural' constitutionalism.

This book applies a discussion of the nature of human life to resolving bioethical issues.

Drawing on a range of research and media sources to provide an international perspective on the topic of prison violence, this book focuses on the impact of such violence on the individual both while he or she is incarcerated and upon his or her release from prison, as well as on society as a whole.