Mary Donnelly and Claire Murray (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719099465
- eISBN:
- 9781526104410
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719099465.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture
The Irish health system is confronted by a range of challenges, both emerging and recurring. In order to address these, it is essential that spaces are created for conversations around complex ...
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The Irish health system is confronted by a range of challenges, both emerging and recurring. In order to address these, it is essential that spaces are created for conversations around complex ethical and legal issues. This collection aims to provide a basis for ongoing engagement with selected issues in contemporary Irish health contexts. It includes contributions from scholars and practitioners across a range of disciplines, most particularly, ethics, law and medicine. The focus of the collection is interdisciplinary and the essays are situated at the intersection between ethics, law and medicine. Important issues addressed include admission to care homes; assisted suicide; adolescent decision-making; allocation of finite resources; conscientious objection; data protection; decision-making at the end of life; mental health; the rights of older people; patient responsibilities; stem cell research; the role of carers; and reproductive rights. From these discussion, the collection draws out the following interlinking themes, addressing difference; context and care; oversight and decision-making; and, regulating research. The essays are theoretically informed and are grounded in the realities of the Irish health system, by drawing on contributors’ contextual knowledge. This book makes an informed and balanced contribution to academic and broader public discourse.Less
The Irish health system is confronted by a range of challenges, both emerging and recurring. In order to address these, it is essential that spaces are created for conversations around complex ethical and legal issues. This collection aims to provide a basis for ongoing engagement with selected issues in contemporary Irish health contexts. It includes contributions from scholars and practitioners across a range of disciplines, most particularly, ethics, law and medicine. The focus of the collection is interdisciplinary and the essays are situated at the intersection between ethics, law and medicine. Important issues addressed include admission to care homes; assisted suicide; adolescent decision-making; allocation of finite resources; conscientious objection; data protection; decision-making at the end of life; mental health; the rights of older people; patient responsibilities; stem cell research; the role of carers; and reproductive rights. From these discussion, the collection draws out the following interlinking themes, addressing difference; context and care; oversight and decision-making; and, regulating research. The essays are theoretically informed and are grounded in the realities of the Irish health system, by drawing on contributors’ contextual knowledge. This book makes an informed and balanced contribution to academic and broader public discourse.
Kirsty Thomson
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781474401128
- eISBN:
- 9781474418683
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474401128.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter outlines the legal rights and responsibilities that relate to victims of human trafficking in Scotland and the legal landscape for their implementation. It looks at the legal context ...
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This chapter outlines the legal rights and responsibilities that relate to victims of human trafficking in Scotland and the legal landscape for their implementation. It looks at the legal context taking into account international, European and national law; the devolved system of government in Scotland and the interplay with reserved matters, in particular immigration; definitions and systems for identification and protection in Scotland [which are largely policy based and the impact this has in practice] and the rights and responsibilities of Scottish public authorities in relation to human trafficking.Less
This chapter outlines the legal rights and responsibilities that relate to victims of human trafficking in Scotland and the legal landscape for their implementation. It looks at the legal context taking into account international, European and national law; the devolved system of government in Scotland and the interplay with reserved matters, in particular immigration; definitions and systems for identification and protection in Scotland [which are largely policy based and the impact this has in practice] and the rights and responsibilities of Scottish public authorities in relation to human trafficking.
David M. Webber
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474423564
- eISBN:
- 9781474438384
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474423564.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, UK Politics
The final case study returns to the theme of financing for development explored in chapter 5. Yet where this first case study chapter explored the macroeconomic architecture surrounding debt relief, ...
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The final case study returns to the theme of financing for development explored in chapter 5. Yet where this first case study chapter explored the macroeconomic architecture surrounding debt relief, chapter 7 examines the link between the welfare reforms that Gordon Brown introduced in the UK, and the ‘Global New Deal’ that he sought to promote abroad. The centrepiece of Brown’s ‘Global New Deal’ was his much-vaunted International Finance Facility (and, latterly, International Finance Facility for Immunisation). The IFF, it is argued here, was very much in keeping with Brown’s ‘golden rule’ to ‘borrow only to invest’ and his enthusiasm to use Private Finance Initiatives and Public-Private Partnerships to fund public goods. With overseas aid viewed as a form of global welfare, the IFF would frontload the finance needed for development and distribute it to those recipient countries that met the responsibilities demanded of them. Ascribing aid with the same contractual obligations of ‘rights and responsibilities’ however, served only to obscure the structural causes of inequality faced by many countries in the global South. Moreover, Brown’s own form of ‘conditionality’ would restrict still further the already-limited economic autonomy of those nations urgently in need of this aid.Less
The final case study returns to the theme of financing for development explored in chapter 5. Yet where this first case study chapter explored the macroeconomic architecture surrounding debt relief, chapter 7 examines the link between the welfare reforms that Gordon Brown introduced in the UK, and the ‘Global New Deal’ that he sought to promote abroad. The centrepiece of Brown’s ‘Global New Deal’ was his much-vaunted International Finance Facility (and, latterly, International Finance Facility for Immunisation). The IFF, it is argued here, was very much in keeping with Brown’s ‘golden rule’ to ‘borrow only to invest’ and his enthusiasm to use Private Finance Initiatives and Public-Private Partnerships to fund public goods. With overseas aid viewed as a form of global welfare, the IFF would frontload the finance needed for development and distribute it to those recipient countries that met the responsibilities demanded of them. Ascribing aid with the same contractual obligations of ‘rights and responsibilities’ however, served only to obscure the structural causes of inequality faced by many countries in the global South. Moreover, Brown’s own form of ‘conditionality’ would restrict still further the already-limited economic autonomy of those nations urgently in need of this aid.
