The landmark decision R. v. Morgentaler (1988) struck down Canada's abortion law and is widely believed to have established a right to abortion, but its actual impact is much less decisive. In After Morgentaler, Rachael Johnstone examines the state of abortion access in Canada today and argues that substantive access is essential to full citizenship for women. Using case studies, Johnstone assesses the role of both state and non-state actors in shaping access. This book affirms the need to recognize abortion as an issue fundamentally tied to women's equality, while stressing the utility of rights claims to improve access.

Consumer and environmental protection depend on the careful regulation of all classes of chemicals. Toxicology is the key science used to evaluate safety and so underpins regulatory decisions on chemicals. With the growing body of EU legislation involved in chemical regulation, there is a concomitant need to understand the toxicological principles underlying safety assessments Regulatory Toxicology in the European Union is the first book to cover regulatory toxicology specifically in Europe. It addresses the need for a wider understanding of the principles of regulatory toxicology and their application and presents the relationship between toxicology and legislative processes in regulating chemical commodities across Europe. This title has a broad scope, covering historical and current chemical regulation in Europe, the role of European agencies and institutions, and also the use of toxicology data for important classes of chemicals, including human and veterinary medicines, animal feed and food additives, biocides, pesticides and nanomaterials. This book is therefore extremely pertinent and timely in the toxicology field at present. This book is an essential reference for regulatory authorities, industrialists, academics, undergraduates and postgraduates working within safety and hazards, toxicology, the biological sciences, and the medicinal and pharmaceutical sciences across the European Union.

Health care reform has been a dominant theme in public discourse for decades now. The passage of the Affordable Care Act was a major milestone, but rather than quell the rhetoric, it has sparked even more heated debate. In the latest edition of Introduction to US Health Policy, Donald A. Barr reviews the current structure of the American health care system, describing the historical and political contexts in which it developed and the core policy issues that continue to confront us today. Barr's comprehensive analysis explores the various organizations and institutions that make the US health care system work-or fail to work. He describes in detail the paradox of US health care-simultaneously the best in the world and one of the worst among developed countries-while introducing readers to broad cultural issues surrounding health care policy, such as access, affordability, and quality. Barr also discusses specific elements of US health care with depth and nuance, including insurance, especially Medicare and Medicaid. He scrutinizes the shift to for-profit managed care while analyzing the pharmaceutical industry, issues surrounding long-term care, the plight of the uninsured, the prevalence of medical errors, and the troublesome issue of nursing shortages. The thoroughly updated edition of this widely adopted text focuses on the Affordable Care Act. It explains the steps taken to carry out the Act, the changes to the Act based on recent Supreme Court decisions, the success of the Act in achieving the combined goals of improved access to care and constraining the costs of care, and the continuing political controversy regarding its future. Drawing on an extensive range of resources, including government reports, scholarly publications, and analyses from a range of private organizations, Introduction to US Health Policy provides scholars, policymakers, and health care providers with a comprehensive platform of ideas that is key to understanding and influencing the changes in the US health care system.

Health and Safety Enforcement: Law and Practice has become the leading text for practitioners in this complex and growing branch of the law, providing an authoritative and practical guide to the key issues in health and safety enforcement from two leading specialists in this area. This fourth edition continues to provide comprehensive coverage of health and safety inspectors' enforcement powers, the service and appeal of improvement and prohibition notices, and the law relating to health and safety offences, as well as expanded coverage of work-related death investigations, corporate and gross negligence manslaughter prosecutions, inquests, and the Coroner's procedure. The authors draw on their combined experience in the field to offer expert guidance on advising both individual and corporate clients while the inclusion of relevant extracts from the key statutes and the most important Health and Safety Regulations ensures ease of reference to the regulations. Comprehensively and meticulously updated, this edition now also covers the vastly changed regulatory landscape, including the HSE 'fees for intervention', and provides a start-to-finish guide to criminal procedure in a health and safety case, including the recent changes to fines in the magistrates' courts. The authors also offer commentary on the new sentencing guidelines in respect of health and safety offences and corporate manslaughter, which are expected in late 2015, and insightful analysis of important decisions and their practical implications, such as R v Tangerine & Veolia, and other recent case law.

This book contributes towards EU studies and the growing discourse on law and public health. It uses the EU's governance of public health as a lens through which to explore questions of legal competence and its development through policy and concrete techniques, processes and practices, risk and security, human rights and bioethics, accountability and legitimacy, democracy and citizenship, and the nature, essence and 'future trajectory' of the European integration project. These issues are explored first by situating the EU's public health strategy within the overarching architecture of governance and subsequently by examining its operationalisation in relation to the key public health problems of cancer, HIV/AIDS and pandemic planning. The book argues that the centrality and valorisation of scientific and technical knowledge and expertise in the EU's risk-based governance means that citizen participation in decision-making is largely marginalised and underdeveloped - and that this must change if public health and the quality, accountability and legitimacy of EU governance and its regulation are to be improved. Subsequently the book goes on to argue that the legitimating discourses of ethics and human rights, and the developing notion of EU (supra-)stewardship responsibility, can help to highlight the normative dimensions of governance and its interventions in public health. These discourses and dimensions provide openings and possibilities for citizens to power 'technologies of participation' and contribute important supplementary knowledge to decision-making.

Cet ouvrage grand public presente le debat religieux, medical, social et juridique chez les juifs, les chretiens et les musulmans autour de la circon-cision masculine et feminine. Si aujourd'hui la circoncision feminine fait l'objet d'une campagne nationale et internationale visant a l'interdire, la circoncision masculine est acceptee et rares sont ceux qui osent la critiquer. On estime, a tort, qu'elle est moins grave que la circoncision feminine, voire benefique pour la sante. L'auteur denonce ce mythe entretenu par les Nations Unies et l'Organisation mondiale de la sante. Il demontre que la distinction entre la circoncision masculine et feminine est illusoire, toutes deux etant une violation flagrante de l'integrite physique que rien ne justifie. Cette distinction est la raison principale de l'echec de la campagne contre la circoncision feminine. On ne peut garantir le droit a l'integrite physique de la fille si on nie ce droit a son frere. L'auteur Sami A. Aldeeb Abu-Sahlieh: Chretien d'origine palestinienne. Citoyen suisse. Docteur en droit. Habilite a diriger des recherches (HDR). Professeur des universites (CNU-France). Responsable du droit arabe et musulman a l'Institut suisse de droit compare (1980-2009). Professeur invite dans differentes universites en France, en Italie et en Suisse. Directeur du Centre de droit arabe et musulman. Auteur de nombreux ouvrages dont une traduction francaise, italienne et anglaise du Coran.

Cet ouvrage detaille presente le debat religieux, medical, social et juridique chez les juifs, les chretiens et les musulmans autour de la circoncision masculine et feminine. Si aujourd'hui la circoncision feminine fait l'objet d'une campagne nationale et internationale visant a l'interdire, la circoncision masculine est acceptee et rares sont ceux qui osent la critiquer. On estime, a tort, qu'elle est moins grave que la circoncision feminine, voire benefique pour la sante. L'auteur denonce ce mythe entretenu par les Nations Unies et l'Organisation mondiale de la sante. Il demontre que la distinction entre la circoncision masculine et feminine est illusoire, toutes deux etant une violation flagrante de l'integrite physique que rien ne justifie. Cette distinction est la raison principale de l'echec de la campagne contre la circoncision feminine. On ne peut garantir le droit a l'integrite physique de la fille si on nie ce droit a son frere. L'auteur Sami A. Aldeeb Abu-Sahlieh: Chretien d'origine palestinienne. Citoyen suisse. Docteur en droit. Habilite a diriger des recherches (HDR). Professeur des universites (CNU-France). Responsable du droit arabe et musulman a l'Institut suisse de droit compare (1980-2009). Professeur invite dans differentes universites en France, en Italie et en Suisse. Directeur du Centre de droit arabe et musulman. Auteur de nombreux ouvrages dont une traduction francaise, italienne et anglaise du Coran.