Social Law

This book brings together a number of important issues within the area of mental health and deafness. The book is aimed at mental health profession...

In response to concerns over the adequacy of retirement savings, Congress has created incentives to encourage individuals to save more for retireme...

In 2004, the Assisted Human Reproduction Act was passed by the Parliament of Canada. Fully in force by 2007, the act was intended to safeguard and ...

Employers who sponsor 401(k) plans report using a range of default investment types to automatically enrol employees in their plans based on each t...

Title I of the Ticket to Work Program, administered by the Social Security Administration, is a program to enhance work incentives for Social Secur...

How do communities consent to difference? How do they recognize and create the space and time necessary for the differences and disabilities of tho...

Disability Law and Policy: An Analysis of the UN Convention undertakes a multidisciplinary examination of the United Nations Convention on the Righ...

This book introduces several programs and guidelines that would help to provide housing, employment, and other services to adults with psychiatric ...

Limited access to money is one of the most serious problems facing Americans with disabilities. The Federal Government spends large amounts on beha...

Youth with disabilities who are also in the foster care system are one of the most vulnerable populations in the United States, yet little attentio...

The Older Americans Act (OAA) is the major federal vehicle for the delivery of social and nutritional services for older persons. These include sup...

Nothing about us without us has been a core principle of American disability rights activists for more than half a century. It represents a respons...

This handbook serves as a practical guide for students handling Social Security cases in a live-client clinical course. It includes explanations of...

Through a close examination of employment, education, transportation, telecommunications, and health care, this survey explores the landscape of di...

Millions of U.S. workers have little or no savings for retirement, potentially adding to future strains on state and national safety net programs. ...

This book is an overview of one of the most serious problems facing Americans with disabilities, according to a recent National Organization on Dis...

The European Yearbook of Disability Law is part of the ongoing research programme of the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights of Maastricht Universit...

Medical Law and Ethics covers the core legal principles, key cases, and statutes that govern medical law alongside the key ethical debates and dile...

Foreign assistance by the United States is tangled with domestic politics, and perhaps this is most clear in relation to funding for health and fam...

Now in its Seventh Edition and in vivid full-color, this groundbreaking book continues to champion the Have a Care approach, while also providi...

This book brings together legal scholars engaging with vulnerability theory to explore the implications and challenges for law of understanding vul...

Can an employer refuse to hire someone who tests positive for nicotine or alcohol? Can an airline or movie theatre require overweight customers to ...

Psychiatry and religion/spirituality (R/S) share an interest in human flourishing, a concern with beliefs and values, and an appreciation for commu...

Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2022!Here is the current authoritative tool you need as you weigh potential ethical issues and make important ...

Unique new book providing an overview and critical analysis of developments in Irish mental health policy, practice and law from 1945 to the presen...

The health care reform debate in the United States raises many complex issues including those of coverage, accessibility, cost, accountability, and...

Since 2014, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has required most individuals to maintain health insurance coverage or potential...

The federal government is the largest employer in the United States, and the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program is the largest employ...

In the last decade, shortages of prescription drugs containing controlled substances, such as narcotics and stimulants, have increased nationwide, ...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), as of 2014, changed how insurers determine health insurance premiums and how consumers shop...

The Medicaid program marked its 50th anniversary on July 30, 2015. The joint federal-state program has grown to be one of the largest sources of he...

Rising health care cost is a major concern for health policy makers since the 1960s. Statistical analysis of medical cost data is becoming increasi...

The number of uninsured individuals and the rising cost of health insurance have been long-standing issues. The Patient Protection and Affordable C...

The importance of managed care in Medicaid -- under which states contract with managed care organisations (MCOs) to provide a specific set of servi...