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La dignidad del paciente

una revisión crítica y práctica

Aunque abundan los títulos bibliográficos que abordan puntualmente las diversas cuestiones relacionadas con el derecho a la protección de la salud, en muchos casos no superan el tratamiento meramente doctrinal. Precisamente con esta monografía se pretende proporcionar a un amplio espectro de profesionales las dos ...

Esquemas de Seguridad y Salud en el Trabajo

La solidaridad

estudio constitucional comparado

Los Estados compuestos como la de las integraciones, que son manifestación de la vertiente bilateral de la globalización. Con este objeto se estudia, en primer lugar, el origen, constitucionalización, naturaleza jurídica, contenido y tipología normativa de la solidaridad. Posteriormente, sus manifestaciones en los principales Estados ...

El siglo más largo de Roma

una mirada a la vida y la época del emperador Constancio II

Descuidada con demasiada frecuencia, la historia del imperio romano tardío resulta fundamental, sin embargo, para el entendimiento de la historia del mundo que habría de configurarse a partir del establecimiento de Bizancio y del inicio de la Edad Media. En la presente obra Pedro Barceló ...

Introduction to International Relations

perspectives, connections, and enduring questions

This bestselling introductory textbook provides a truly comprehensive and approachable guide to international affairs. Bringing together decades of combined experience in researching and teaching global politics from three acclaimed scholars, this book introduces you to the key concepts in international relations while equipping you with ...

Political conflict in Pakistan

This book is a major reinterpretation of Pakistani politics. Its focus is conflict among groups, communities, classes, ideologies and institutions, which has shaped the country's political dynamics. Mohammad Waseem analyses the millennium-long conflict between Hindus and Muslims as separate nations but intermingled faiths, and ...

Diplomatic gifts

a history in fifty presents

Gifts have been part of international relations since ancient times. They can serve as tokens of friendship, apology or authority; as taunts, bribes, boasts or tricks. They can also go wrong: Mali's 2013 gift of a camel to French President François Hollande was reported ...

The foreign policy of Hamas

ideology, decision making and political supremacy

Despite the boycott Hamas was subjected to since its victory in the 2006 parliamentary elections, it has become a significant player on the international stage. It boasts a territory identifiable by its borders, internationally recognized cease-fire lines and effective authority over a population. This book ...

Foreign policy in Iran and Saudi Arabia

economics and diplomacy in the Middle East

Saudi Arabia, with its US alliance and abundance of oil dollars, has a very different economic story to that of Iran, which despite enormous natural gas reserves, has been hit hard by economic, trade, scientific and military sanctions since its 1979 revolution. Robert Mason looks ...

Tyranny and revolution

Rousseau to Heidegger

The Philosophy of Freedom from Rousseau to Heidegger launched a great protest against modern liberal individualism, inspired by the virtuous political community of the ancient Greeks. Hegel argued that the progress of history was gradually bringing about greater freedom and restoring our lost sense of ...

Electricity capacity markets

Initially created as afterthoughts to competitive electricity markets, capacity markets were intended to enhance system reliability. They have evolved into massive, highly controversial, and poorly understood billion-dollar institutions. Electricity Capacity Markets examines the rationales for creating capacity markets, how capacity markets work, and how well ...

Legal reasoning

The common law, which is made by courts, consists of rules that govern relations between individuals, such as torts (the law of private wrongs) and contracts. Legal Reasoning explains and analyzes the modes of reasoning utilized by the courts in making and applying common law ...

Intellectual property licensing and transactions

theory and practice

Intellectual property transactions underlie large segments of the global economy, from pharmaceuticals to computing, entertainment to digital content. This first-of-its-kind resource combines practical contract drafting and negotiation skills with substantive legal doctrine in the rapidly growing area of intellectual property transactions and licensing. Though primarily ...

Violence in everyday life

power, gender and sexuality

Violence in Everyday Life explores how identity markers such as gender and sexuality intersect with violence, synthesizing the themes of gender, sexuality and violence to offering a crucial and coherent framework for understanding the interrelationship between these concepts. Aliraza Javaid explores how violence is experienced ...

Turkey's new state in the making

transformations in legality, economy and coercion

Since the Gezi uprisings in June 2013 and AKP's temporary loss of parliamentary supremacy after the June 2015 general elections, sharp political clashes, ascending police operations, extra-judicial executions, suppression of the media and political opposition, systematic violation of the constitution and fundamental human rights ...

The European social question

tackling key controversies

Over recent years it has become increasingly clear that the European Union is falling short of its promise to enhance social cohesion across the continent. Welfare state modernization has been at the centre of divisive debates over the redistribution of wealth and imbalances between a ...

A troubled constitutional future

Northern Ireland after Brexit

The UK's decision to leave the EU has opened up huge existential questions for Northern Ireland as it marks its centenary. Constitutional conflict in Northern Ireland had been regarded as largely resolved and settled, but Brexit has altered the wider constitutional framework within which ...

Resilient welfare states in the European Union

The European welfare systems, established after the Second World War, have been under sustained attack since the late 1970s from the neoliberal drive towards a small state and from the market as the foremost instrument for the efficient allocation of scarce resources. After the 2008 ...

Understanding corruption

how corruption works in practice

Corruption takes many different forms and the systems that enable it are complex and challenging. To best understand corruption, one needs to examine how it operates in practice. Understanding Corruption tells the story of how corruption happens in the real world, illustrated through detailed case ...

A unified approach to contract interpretation

Interpretation or construction is central to the operation of contract law. Despite the fundamental role it plays, there have been limited attempts to explain construction in holistic terms. This important book aims to fill that gap by offering a systematic exposition of the iterative process ...