Social law and Medical law

This book addresses some of the most debated topics preceding the UK referendum on membership of the EU, namely welfare services and free movement of citizens.

This book focuses on women's human rights in India.

There are many histories of the police as a law-enforcement institution, but no genealogy of the police as a form of power.

This volume takes stock of contemporary perspectives on gender and crime.

From the Global to the Local develops a unique perspective on human rights governance in developing countries, where the state often lacks the required resources, capacities and expertise for implementing rights.

Effective Threat Management: A Primer presents the ABCs for identifying, assessing, and managing potentially violent individuals.

This book contributes to a feminist understanding of international human rights by examining restrictions on reproductive freedom through the lens of the right to be free from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.

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

Though it may seem hard to believe, it took America's lawmakers some 110 years before they crafted legislation aimed at protecting the welfare of children.

Examines when and why discrimination based on health status - or ''healthism'' - should be allowed, and when it should not.

This book collects fifteen new case studies documenting successful knowledge and information sharing commons institutions for medical and health sciences innovation.

Quickly acquire the practical coverage and guidance you need to understand the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) governs how states and public agencies provide early intervention, special education, and related services to children with disabilities.

This book makes an argument for the legal role and responsibility of sovereign states in the trusteeship of the Earth.

Unique in its focus, this book provides an evidence-based framework for assessing work-related neurological and psychological injuries.

With contributions by internationally recognized specialists, this book, a perfect complement to courses in criminology and hate crime, provides a key resource for understanding how racism and homophobia work to produce violence.

Abortion remains one of the most complex and controversial issues in contemporary law and bioethics.

Islamic law influences the lives of Muslims today as aspects of the law are applied as part of State law in different forms in many areas of the world.

The question of tolerance and Islam is not a new one.

Providing a thorough, well-researched investigation of the socio-legal issues surrounding medically assisted death for the past century, this book traces the origins of the controversy and discusses the future of policymaking in this arena domestically and abroad.

Officially, Western societies are waging a war on obesity.

This title was first published in 2003: As new medical technologies and treatments develop with increasing momentum, the legal and ethical implications of research involving human participants are being called into question as never before.

Das Buch zeigt praxisnah die vielen Besonderheiten auf, die es zu beachten gilt, um Arbeitnehmer in Frankreich rechtssicher einzustellen, Arbeitsverträge zu beenden oder Mitarbeiter von oder nach Frankreich zu entsenden.

This book assesses the role of social justice in legal scholarship and its potential future development by focusing upon the 'leading works' of the discipline.

Health Law: Frameworks and Context adopts a theoretically informed and principles-based approach to examining health law.

Once the stuff of science fiction, recent progress in artificial intelligence, robotics, and machine learning means that these rapidly advancing technologies are finally coming into widespread use within everyday life.

The grazing of animals on common land and associated property rights were the original basis of the concept of "e;the tragedy of the commons"e;.

Giorgio Agamben: Power, Law and the Uses of Criticism is a thorough engagement with the thought of the influential Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben.

Ethical and Legal Issues in Counseling Children and Adolescents provides counselors and other professionals with clinical cases and accurate, up-to-date information on both ethical standards and case law.

This book addresses the themes of praxis and the role of international lawyers as intellectuals and political actors engaging with questions of justice for Third World peoples.

Gavin Hamilton's research shows that a toxin found in natural rubber might well have been the culprit in the 43 babies' deaths at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children in 1980-81.

This book contributes to and broadens the field of Border Criminology, by bringing together a collection of chapters from leading scholars engaged in cross-national and comparative conversations on bordered penality and crimmigration practices, with a specific focus on research conducted in places that may be considered peripheral and semi-peripheral jurisdictions.

This volume presents a comparison of the experiences of NGOs in China and Europe.

Traditionally relegated because of political pressure and public expectations, courts in Latin America are increasingly asserting a stronger role in public and political discussions.

How is it that, half a century after Brown v.

This book presents the findings of the first comprehensive study on the most recent and most unique and innovative method of monitoring international human rights law at the United Nations.

Mark Dawson analyses how non-binding ''new governance'' methods are transforming EU social law and policy.

The move to manage medicine from a financial perspective, i.

This book examines the global regulation of biodiversity politics through the UN UNConvention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the WTO and other international treaties.

'A tour de force' - Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain From the doctor's office to the opioid crisis, The Hard Sell is the story of a pharmaceutical company that got Americans hooked on fentanyl - and how it was finally held to account.

This internationally authored textbook demystifies the complexities that health systems pose in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

This book provides cutting-edge information available on topics such as child abuse, children''s eyewitness testimony, divorce and custody, juvenile crime, and children''s rights.

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

In the contemporary fascination with images of crime, violence gets under our skin and keeps us enthralled.

Leadership includes the ability to persuade others to embrace one's ideas and to act upon them.

In the aftermath of colonial occupation, Indigenous peoples have long fought to assert their sovereignty.

The Yearbook of Consumer Law provides a valuable outlet for high quality scholarly work which tracks developments in the consumer law field with a domestic, regional and international dimension.

Depression is amorphous.