The regulation of nicotine in the United Kingdom: how nicotine gum came to be a medicine, but not a drug [0.03%]
英国的尼古丁监管:为什么尼古丁口香糖是一种医药品而不是一种药物
Catriona Rooke,Emilie Cloatre,Robert Dingwall
Catriona Rooke
This article explores the utility of actor-network theory (ANT) as a tool for socio-legal research. ANT is deployed in a study of the evolution of divided regulatory responsibility for tobacco and medicinal nicotine (MN) products in the Uni...
Oliver Quick
Oliver Quick
This article examines the reliance placed on expert evidence in prosecutions of health professionals for gross negligence manslaughter, where juries must decide whether conduct goes beyond civil negligence and constitutes the crime of invol...
Images of welfare in law and society: the British welfare state in comparative perspective [0.03%]
福利国家的图景:英国福利国家的比较视角
Daniel Wincott
Daniel Wincott
Designed by Beveridge and built by Attlee's post-war Labour government, the welfare state was created during the 1940s. Britain has been seen – in domestic debates and internationally – as a world first: the place where both the idea and ...
Enduring love? Attitudes to family and inheritance law in England and Wales [0.03%]
英国和威尔士的家庭关系与继承法态度调查报告之二:持久的爱?
Gillian Douglas,Hilary Woodward,Alun Humphrey et al.
Gillian Douglas et al.
This paper reports on the findings from a large-scale study of public attitudes to inheritance law, particularly the rules on intestacy. It argues that far from the assumption that the family' is in terminal decline, people in England and W...
Embedding economic relationships through social learning? The limits of patient and public involvement in healthcare governance in England [0.03%]
社会学习中的经济关系嵌入?英格兰医疗治理中患者和公众参与的局限性
Peter Vincent-Jones
Peter Vincent-Jones
The strategy for NHS modernization in England is privileging individual choice over collective voice in the governance of healthcare. This paper explores the tension between economic and democratic strands in the current reform agenda, draw...
Queer kinship practices in non-western contexts: French Polynesia's gender-variant parents and the law of La République [0.03%]
非西方语境下的酷儿亲属关系实践——塔希提岛的性别越轨者父母与法兰西共和国的法律
Aleardo Zanghellini
Aleardo Zanghellini
French Polynesia is an overseas collectivity of France whose kinship practices accommodate transgender parenting through the involvement of gender-variant (mahu) people in childrearing, including as adoptive parents in customary (faamu) ado...
Neil Cobb
Neil Cobb
In 2004 the Association of British Insurers (ABI) issued its second Statement of Best Practice on HIV and Insurance. This prohibited use of the "gay question" (employed by some underwriters in application forms for life insurance to identif...
The exclusion of (failed) asylum seekers from housing and home: towards an oppositional discourse [0.03%]
论拒绝向(被退回的)避难寻求者提供住房及住所:迈向一种对立修辞法
Lorna Fox OMahony,James A Sweeney
Lorna Fox OMahony
"Housing" - the practical provision of a roof over one's head - is experienced by users as "home" - broadly described as housing plus the experiential elements of dwelling. Conversely, being without housing, commonly described as "homelessn...
Mother abuse: a matter of youth justice, child welfare or domestic violence? [0.03%]
母虐待:青少年司法、儿童福利还是家庭暴力问题?
Caroline Hunter,Judy Nixon,Sadie Parr
Caroline Hunter
International evidence suggests that in advanced welfare states the abuse of parents, most particularly mothers, by their (most frequently male) adolescent children is increasingly prevalent. In the United Kingdom, however, child-to-mother ...
Conditional rights, benefit reform, and drug users: reducing dependency? [0.03%]
条件权利、福利改革与吸毒者:减少依赖吗?
Neville Harris
Neville Harris
United Kingdom government policy to increase social security claimants' entry to the labour market through conditions attached to unemployed, sickness and incapacity benefits now includes additional measures to activate particular groups su...