Der Schutz der Gesundheit verlangt medizinischen Fortschritt und die tatsächliche Verfügbarkeit von Spitzenmedizin. Allerdings werden damit zusammenhängende Ausgabensteigerungen angesichts der "Kostendämpfungsmaxime"" oft als Fehlentwicklung wahrgenommen. Der Aufsatzband stellt …
"States that now contemplate constitutional reform often grapple with the question of whether to constitutionalise social rights. This book presents an argument for why, under the right conditions, doing so can be a good way to advance social justice. In making such a case, the …
"This edited volume offers original scholarship on economic and social human rights from leading and new cutting-edge scholars in the fields of economics, law, political science, sociology and anthropology. It analyzes the core economic and social rights and the crucial topic of…
Since the end of the Second World War, increasing numbers of women have decided to become mothers without intending the biological father or a partner to participate in parenting. Many conceive via donor insemination or adopt; others become pregnant after a brief sexual relation…
"An essential introduction to rights-based approaches in social policy, this text critically explores how social rights underpin human wellbeing. It discusses social rights as rights of citizenship in developed welfare states and as an essential component within the internationa…
"An essential introduction to rights-based approaches in social policy, this text critically explores how social rights underpin human wellbeing. It discusses social rights as rights of citizenship in developed welfare states and as an essential component within the internationa…
"An essential introduction to rights-based approaches in social policy, this text critically explores how social rights underpin human wellbeing. It discusses social rights as rights of citizenship in developed welfare states and as an essential component within the internationa…
This book is the first attempt to establish a collaborative and interdisciplinary field of economics and legal studies. It is designed to help readers - advanced undergraduate and graduate students, but also fellow scholars who are interested in interdisciplinarity - to think th…
"As President John F. Kennedy declared the nation at a promising and perilous "New Frontier"-"a turning-point in history"--Newburgh, New York, seemed to belong in the proverbial dust heap with the rest of the detritus of the past. Once the headquarters for George Washington and …
América Latina es la región de mayor desigualdad económica del mundo en términos de ingresos. A pesar del crecimiento de la región, esta desigualdad aumentó durante los últimos cincuenta y, sobre todo, los últimos veinte años, con resultados previsibles: disminución del salario …
