Public health & safety law

Responsibility is an important idea in many areas of healthcare. This volume brings together leading scholars writing on a range of questions about the role of responsibility in healthcare, and drawing on a range of academic perspectives including philosophy, politics, and psychology. Learn More

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This book examines how the COVID-19 pandemic has engendered a new and challenging environment in which borders drawn around people, places, and social structures have hardened, and new ones have emerged. Learn More

This book examines how the COVID-19 pandemic has engendered a new and challenging environment in which borders drawn around people, places, and social structures have hardened, and new ones have emerged. Learn More

This book analyses the right to water and sanitation at both the international level and national levels. At a national level the book examines the law in India relating to both recognition and realisation of the rights. The book considers the complex legal framework in place at the union and state level for the realisation of the rights. Learn More

Anchored by family research case studies, this book presents documents and newspaper accounts about the diverse experiences of three real people who lived and worked from their homes in the Victorian era. Learn More

Visions of Cannabis Control documents the history of cannabis policy, and the role of racism, labelling, and stigmatization. It examines the failure to properly frame cannabis prohibition as the result of moral panics and concludes that to sustain reform those affected by cannabis policies must be consulted, respected, and included. Learn More

Public health law has been a subject of much controversy and contestation especially since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out. This timely book inquires into the foundational principles of a form of public health law which takes seriously the inherent dignity of the human person. Learn More

Public health law has been a subject of much controversy and contestation especially since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out. This timely book inquires into the foundational principles of a form of public health law which takes seriously the inherent dignity of the human person. Learn More

This guide for trainees, advanced students and junior maritime professionals covers maritime organisational hazards and risks; root cause analyses and techniques for analysing evidence; and a maritime root cause analysis and strategy approach; with flow diagrams, line charts, and a toolkit of forms and documents. Learn More

This guide for trainees, advanced students and junior maritime professionals covers maritime organisational hazards and risks; root cause analyses and techniques for analysing evidence; and a maritime root cause analysis and strategy approach; with flow diagrams, line charts, and a toolkit of forms and documents. Learn More

This groundbreaking book argues that philosophy is not just useful, but vital, for thinking coherently about priorities in health policy and public policy. Learn More

Rethinking Drug Laws develops new theoretical and conceptual tools for understanding how drug control functions. It presents original archival research on the origins of drug prohibition, and explains ways that we can develop a better 'politics of drugs' that can reanimate drug law reform. Learn More

This book covers the designing, implementation, and auditing of structured occupational health and safety management systems (SMS), sometimes referred to as safety programs. This book covers the elements and processes that constitute a SMS, the implementation process, and the auditing of the conformance to standards. Learn More