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This multi-author, multinational book has provided a source of information about the forensic aspects of medicine and related fields for those currently involved in the clinical and pathologic aspects of health care, forensic assessment, investigation and diagnosis for victims, assailants and others involved in police or judicial systems.
"This is a bold project recording the lives of a particular group of Southeast Asians. Most of the people whose biographies are included here have settled down in the ten countries that constitute the region. Each of them has either self-identified as Chinese or is comfortable to be known as someone of Chinese ancestry. There are also those who were born in China or elsewhere who came here to work and do business, including seeking help from others who have ethnic Chinese connections. With the political and economic conditions of the region in a great state of flux for the past two centuries, it is impossible to find consistency in the naming process. Confucius had stressed that correct name...
Glenn Knight was Singapore’s first Director of Commercial Affairs and Deputy Public Prosecutor until his illustrious career of public service came to an abrupt end. This book covers both the personal and professional landscape of this former top crime buster and high-flier, and details the highly publicised cases he handled including the Adrian Lim murders, and the Pan El and JB Jeyaretnam cases. It also describes his learning experience working with major legal personalities like TT Rajah, AG Tan Boon Teik, Singapore’s first Chief Justice Wee Chong Jin, Justice FA Chua, Justice Choor Singh and Mr David Marshall.
Singapore: The Encyclopedia contains over 2,500 alphabetically arranged entries on a vast range of topics ? practically everything the general reader might want to know about Singapore, four decades after the achievement of full independence.
Transnational labor migration often begins with the dream of securing a more stable and prosperous future, a chance to survive. The lure of “global cities” as a place to attain that dream looms large within the context of rural-urban migration flows. This book reveals some of the complex phenomena and processes that strip bare the lives and dreams of migrant workers living abroad, whose life experiences are overwhelmingly dominated by stress and suffering and diminished gendered roles. The book illuminates the intimate aspects of how Thai male migrants have transcended their harsh reality while living under Singapore’s strict regulations governing foreign workers. Stripped bare of the ...
El trabajo que comentamos no sólo aborda problemas filosóficomorales sino también, como no podía ser menos, aspectos jurídicos. En opinión del profesor Álvarez, el derecho a la libre disposición de la vida se fundamenta en el artículo 16 de la Constitución que consagra el derecho a la libertad ideológica, que, a su juicio, tiene una evidente vertiente práctica sin la que la libertad ideológica quedaría desnaturalizada.