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Risk Perception, Culture, and Legal Change
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2009; US$ 124.95This volume analyses the food safety reforms adopted in Japan, Europe and the USA in the aftermath of the BSE crisis, seeking to explain the divergences in such reforms through the so-called 'cultural perception of risk'. more...
Legal Aspects of Mental Capacity
Wiley 2008; US$ 80.99The Mental Capacity Act (2005) governs decision-making processes on behalf of adults who are unable to give informed consent, whether they lose mental capacity at some point in their lives due to illness or injury or where the incapacitating condition has been present since birth. Legal Aspects of Mental Capacity will assist practitioners in understanding... more...
Reconsidering Law and Policy Debates
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 72.00Examines social and political issues that have become resistant to compromise by examining them through a population-based public health perspective. more...
Q&A Medical Law 2011-2012
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 24.95You?ve planned your revision and you know your subject inside out! But how do you apply what you have learned to get the best marks in the examination room? Routledge Q&As give you the ideal opportunity to practice and refine your exam technique, helping you to apply your knowledge most effectively in an exam situation. Each book contains approximately... more...
Inside National Health Reform
University of California Press 2011; US$ 29.95This indispensable guide to the Affordable Care Act, our new national health care law, lends an insider?s deep understanding of policy to a lively and absorbing account of the extraordinary?and extraordinarily ambitious?legislative effort to reform the nation?s health care system. Dr. John E. McDonough, DPH, a health policy expert who served as an... more...
Kompendium zum Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsrecht
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 154.00This new compendium of laws governing universities/higher education and research/scholarship is intended to be a handbook for scholarship and practice. In contrast to other legal works on the subject, here a stronger focus is placed on current reform topics such as the Bologna process and the W salary scale. This concise presentation of all laws governing... more...
What Makes Health Public?
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 34.00John Coggon analyses important ethical, legal and political claims related to public health and health regulation. more...
The Empire Strikes Back
NYU Press 1998; US$ 75.00Once dismissed as plodding and superfluous, legal scholarship is increasingly challenging the liberal white male establishment that currently dominates legal education and practice. The most significant development since the emergence of the casebook, at the turn of the century, this trend has unleashed a fierce political struggle. At stake is nothing... more...
Chicano Students and the Courts
NYU Press 2008; US$ 70.00In 1925 Adolfo "Babe" Romo, a Mexican American rancher in Tempe, Arizona, filed suit against his school district on behalf of his four young children, who were forced to attend a markedly low-quality segregated school, and won. But Romo v. Laird was just the beginning. Some sources rank Mexican Americans as one of the most poorly educated... more...
Law and the Disordered
University Press of America 2009; US$ 47.99How does our legal and mental health system handle the mentally disordered? In this book, George C. Klein presents a revealing survey that explores the system of processing prisoners and patients from arrest to admissions to court. In an investigation spanning over 30-years, Klein examines and evaluates the intersection of law, mental health, and social... more...









