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Briefcase on Medical Law

By: Alasdair Maclean

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Medical law is a relatively new area of law. It draws on, and overlaps with, many other areas of law such as tort, family law, human rights and criminallaw. Apart from this hybrid legal basis it is also informed by bioethical theory. This book draws those elements together to form a comprehendible andsuccinct overview. The cases and other relevant material will be linked byshort comments that help to explain their legal relevance. A brief introductionto the ethical principles that govern the provision of healthcare will provide aframework for considering the issues that arise in the cases.

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Routledge

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1135340439

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9781135340438

Autonomy, Informed Consent and Medical Law

A Relational Challenge

By: Alasdair Maclean

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Autonomy, Informed Consent and Medical Law

A Relational Challenge

By: Alasdair Maclean

Alasdair Maclean examines the ethical basis for consent to medical treatment and offers proposals for reform.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521896932

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9780521896931

Norman MacCaig

By: Alasdair D. F. Macrae

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Norman MacCaig

By: Alasdair D. F. Macrae

Norman MacCaig, who died in 1996, is widely regarded as Scotland's finest contemporary poet, whose later poetry is both accessible and popular. This perceptive study places him in his literary and social contexts and conveys the vigorous intelligence, pithy humour and surprise that characterizes his writing. Approaching the poetry thematically rather than sequentially the author gives a vivid impression of the whole poet and offers both an introduction to and an analysis of MacCaig's major poems with helpful connecting commentary. Throughout this study Alasdair Macrae allows the sharp wit, intelligence and humaneness of the poems to speak to readers and shock, delight and challenge them.

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Northcote House Pub Limited

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0746310765

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9780746310762

Conflict and Development

By: Andrew J. Williams,Alasdair Gordon-Gibson

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Conflict and Development

By: Andrew J. Williams,Alasdair Gordon-Gibson

Fully revised and updated in its third edition, this timely book brings together the study of conflict and war and the problems surrounding the economic development of developing societies that are most prone to experiencing problems in moving on after war. The book does so by reflecting on the issues surrounding war as it unfolds and after it has (in principle) ‘ended’, within the context of the history, present-day problems and future prospects. The book aims to highlight the possibilities, successes and failures of past and present policies that bring ‘development’ to countries and peoples that want to be more involved in deciding their own futures after conflict and war, and often find themselves subject to what can be seen as arbitrary and even alien ways of thinking and acting by institutions in which they theoretically have membership and agency but often do not in practice. The case studies have been fully updated to reflect changes and developments since the second edition of this text, and there are questions at the end of each chapter to promote reflection. This new edition presents a deeper dive into the history of conflict and the emergence of new theories and policy guidance about present and future options in the fields of conflict and development. Accessible and engaging, this textbook is a pivotal resource for a nexus of subjects related to the often separated fields of conflict and development studies, as well as practitioners in this area.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040111556

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9781040111550

Why Scots Should Rule Scotland

By: Alasdair Gray

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Why Scots Should Rule Scotland

By: Alasdair Gray

Alsadair Gray wrote the first edition of this book for the 1992 general election. In it he showed the poor state of present-day Scotland; gave a concise, elegant history of the Scottish people and their relations with the rulers of England; argued that Scotland should have a strong government elected by its own people. Five years later Scotland still does not have that and its state has worsened. The original chapters have been revised and largely rewritten. New chapters dealing with Scottish education, land owning, and law and the Labour Party bring the argument to date. This is a more openly political book than the first edition, written to persuade people who feel their vote does not much influence how their country is managed that Scottish independence matters, and that only one political party is honestly working to achieve it.

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Canongate Books

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1782114327

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9781782114321

Paddle Scotland

The Best Places to Go with a Paddleboard, Kayak or Canoe

By: Alasdair Findlay

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Paddle Scotland

The Best Places to Go with a Paddleboard, Kayak or Canoe

By: Alasdair Findlay

The definitive guide to seeing all the wonders of Scotland under paddle power. Scotland is one of the most appealing destinations for kayakers, canoeists and paddleboarders from all over the world. That's because if there is one country best seen from the water, it is Scotland. Loch Ness contains more water than all of the rivers and lakes in England and Wales combined – and there are 27,000 other lochs to explore as well. What's more, with 125,000km of rivers and 800 islands, there's always somewhere new to paddle. And the spectacular Scottish scenery only adds to the appeal. This book is the complete guide to paddling the wonderfully varied waterways, lochs, rivers and coasts of Scotland, compiled by Ally Findlay, a paddleboard instructor and tour guide based in Glasgow. He covers all regions of Scotland: - South Scotland, including the coast at Kirkcudbright and Fleet Bay, and inland to Loch Ken, and the Galloway Canoe Trail - Central Scotland, including Loch Lomond and the beautiful Trossachs National Park - East Coast Scotland, including the Forth Bridges - West Coast Scotland, from the coast at Arasaig to lochs and rivers including the amazing Rannoch Moor - Scottish Highlands, which become a magical playground in the northwest following the Inverpoly routes From short paddles to day trips into the stunning wilderness, this book covers excursions for all occasions and all levels of ability, explaining where to begin and what to look out for. Most are well suited to canoe and kayak, but going further, some are even better explored standing up on a paddleboard, including cross-Scotland routes such as the Shin System. With beautiful and evocative photography, and clear maps, this is the essential guide to seeing Scotland under paddle power, exploring where to go, how to get there and what to see en route.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1399401467

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9781399401463

Of Me and Others

1952–2019

By: Alasdair Gray

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Of Me and Others

1952–2019

By: Alasdair Gray

In this frank, playful and typically unorthodox collection of essays, Alasdair Gray tells of how his early life experiences influenced his writing, including the creation of those landmarks of literature, Lanark and 1982, Janine. He details the inspirations behind his many acclaimed artworks and murals, and makes clear how his moral, social and political beliefs and his work are inextricably linked. Incisive, funny and fired with passion, Of Me and Others is as much about people, place and politics as it is about Gray's own life in art.

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596

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Canongate Books

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1786895218

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9781786895219

Radio

Making Waves in Sound

By: Alasdair Pinkerton

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Radio

Making Waves in Sound

By: Alasdair Pinkerton

Radio is a medium of seemingly endless contradictions. Now in its third century of existence, the technology still seems startlingly modern; despite frequent predictions of its demise, radio continues to evolve and flourish in the age of the internet and social media. This book explores the history of the radio, describing its technological, political, and social evolution, and how it emerged from Victorian experimental laboratories to become a near-ubiquitous presence in our lives. Alasdair Pinkerton’s story is shaped by radio’s multiple characters and characteristics—radio waves occur in nature, for instance, but have also been harnessed and molded by human beings to bridge oceans and reconfigure our experience of space and time. Published in association with the Science Museum, London, Radio is an informative and thought-provoking book for all enthusiasts of an old technology that still has the capacity to enthuse, entertain, entice, and enrage today.

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Reaktion Books

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1789140994

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9781789140996

The Kings of Alba

c.1000 - c.1130

By: Alasdair Ross

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The Kings of Alba

c.1000 - c.1130

By: Alasdair Ross

The events of 1000-1130 were crucial to the successful emergence of the medieval kingdom of the Scots. Yet this is one of the least researched periods of Scottish history. We probably now know more about the Picts than the post-1000 events that underpinned the spectacular expansion of the small kingdom which came to dominate north Britain by the 1130s. This expansion included the defeat and absorption of other significant cultural and political groups to the north and south of the core kingdom, and was accompanied by the introduction of reformed monasticism. But perhaps the most momentous process amongst all these political and cultural changes was the move towards the domination of the kingship by just one segment of the royal kindred, the sons of King Mael Coluim mac Donnchada's second marriage to Queen Margaret. The story of how these sons managed to achieve political supremacy through machination, murder and mutilation runs like an unsavoury thread throughout this book. The book also investigates the building blocks from which the kingdom was constructed and the various processes which eventually allowed the kings of the different peoples of north Britain to describe themselves as Rex scottorum. It is a hugely rewarding voyage of discovery for anyone interested in the formation of the kingdom of the Scots.

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Birlinn Ltd

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1788853679

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9781788853675

A Life In Pictures

By: Alasdair Gray

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A Life In Pictures

By: Alasdair Gray

Alasdair Gray is Scotland's best known polymath. Born in 1934 in Glasgow, he graduated in design and mural art from the Glasgow School of Art in 1957. After decades of surviving by painting and writing TV and radio plays, his first novel, the loosely autobiographical, blackly fantastic Lanark, opened up new imaginative territory for such varied writers as Jonathan Coe, A.L. Kennedy, James Kelman, Janice Galloway and Irvine Welsh. It led Anthony Burgess to call him 'the most important Scottish writer since Sir Walter Scott'. His other published books include 1982 Janine, Poor Things (winner of the Whitbread Award), The Book of Prefaces, The Ends of our Tethers and Old Men in Love. In this book, with reproductions of his murals, portraits, landscapes and illustrations, Gray tells of his failures and successes which have led his pictures to be accepted by a new generation of visual artists.

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Canongate Books

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1847679625

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9781847679628

Every Short Story by Alasdair Gray 1951-2012

By: Alasdair Gray

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Every Short Story by Alasdair Gray 1951-2012

By: Alasdair Gray

The first sixteen tales in this collection were published by Canongate in 1983 with the title Unlikely Stories, Mostly. This collection also has fifty-seven tales from later books, plus sixteen new ones written for the hardback publication of this collection. This last section, Tales Droll and Plausible, shows that Gray's recent twenty-first-century fiction is as uncomfortably funny and up to date as his earliest.

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0857865625

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9780857865625

The Logic of Discipline

Global Capitalism and the Architecture of Government

By: Alasdair Roberts

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The Logic of Discipline

Global Capitalism and the Architecture of Government

By: Alasdair Roberts

A sweeping account of neoliberal governmental restructuring across the world, 'The Logic of Discipline' offers a powerful analysis of how this undemocratic model is unraveling in the face of a monumental-and ongoing-failure of the market.

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OUP USA

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0199846146

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9780199846146

Independence

An Argument for Home Rule

By: Alasdair Gray

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Independence

An Argument for Home Rule

By: Alasdair Gray

Gray argues that a truly independent Scotland will only ever exist when people in every home, school, croft, farm, workshop, factory, island, glen, town and city feel that they too are at the centre of the world. Independence asks whether widespread social welfare is more possible in small nations such as Norway and New Zealand than in big ones like Britain and the U.S.A. It describes the many differences between Scotland and England. It examines the people who choose to live north of the border. It shows Scotland's relevance to the rest of the world. It attempts to conjure a vision of how a Scots parliament might benefit the people of this small but dynamic nation. And it tells how democracy will only truly succeed when every person believes that their vote will make a difference.

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Canongate Books

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1782111735

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9781782111733

W.B. Yeats

A Literary Life

By: Alasdair D.F. Macrae

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W.B. Yeats

A Literary Life

By: Alasdair D.F. Macrae

This is not a straightforward biography but rather an attempt to describe and examine Yeats as a phenomenon, partly shaped by forces and movements around him and partly shaping the public events of his time. His position in literary, political and cultural matters is detailed and the book offers, through the study of Yeats, an introduction to the fashions of ideas between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Springer

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1349237493

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9781349237494

The Collapse of Fortress Bush

The Crisis of Authority in American Government

By: Alasdair Scott Roberts

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The Collapse of Fortress Bush

The Crisis of Authority in American Government

By: Alasdair Scott Roberts

When the Bush presidency began to collapse, pundits were quick to tell a tale of the "imperial presidency" gone awry, a story of secretive, power-hungry ideologues who guided an arrogant president down the road to ruin. But the inside story of the failures of the Bush administration is both much more complex and alarming, says leading policy analyst Alasdair Roberts. In the most comprehensive, balanced view of the Bush presidency to date, Roberts portrays a surprisingly weak president, hamstrung by bureaucratic, constitutional, cultural and economic barriers and strikingly unable to wield auth

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NYU Press

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081477606X

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9780814776063

Dealing with Europe

Britain and the Negotiation of the Maastricht Treaty

By: Alasdair Blair

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Dealing with Europe

Britain and the Negotiation of the Maastricht Treaty

By: Alasdair Blair

Published in 1999. This book provides a detailed analysis of the positions and strategies adopted by Britain during the 1990-91 Intergovernmental Conference which concluded in the Maastricht Treaty on European Union. The main focus is on the questions of British policy coordination and the factors which determined the government’s position during the negotiations on European Political Union and European Monetary Union. This is the first major study which reconstructs the mechanisms of British policy making and notes the internal and external factors which shaped the construction of the government’s position on the major points of the negotiations. The hypothesis of the book is that domestic politics, primarily through the Prime Minister’s aim to maintain the unity of the Conservative Party, was the determining factor in shaping government policy. This view is based upon micro-level empirical analysis undertaken through a methodological approach of historical interpretation.

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Routledge

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0429873514

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9780429873515

Old Skye Tales

Traditions, Reflections and Memories

By: William MacKenzie,Alasdair MacLean

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Old Skye Tales

Traditions, Reflections and Memories

By: William MacKenzie,Alasdair MacLean

A book featuring Skye, and Trotternish in particular. This collection of myths, stories and eye-witness accounts reveals life in Skye through the ages.

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MacLean Press

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1899272011

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9781899272013

Autonomy, Informed Consent and Medical Law

A Relational Challenge

By: Alasdair Maclean

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Autonomy, Informed Consent and Medical Law

A Relational Challenge

By: Alasdair Maclean

Alasdair Maclean analyses the ethical basis for consent to medical treatment, providing both an extensive reconsideration of the ethical issues and a detailed examination of English law. Importantly, the analysis is given a context by situating consent at the centre of the healthcare professional-patient relationship. This allows the development of a relational model that balances the agency of the two parties with their obligations that arise from that relationship. That relational model is then used to critique the current legal regulation of consent. To conclude, Alasdair Maclean considers the future development of the law and contrasts the model of relational consent with Neil Manson and Onora O'Neill's recent proposal for a model of genuine consent.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139477137

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9781139477130

Birth, Harm and the Role of Distributive Justice

Burdens, Blessings, Need and Desert

By: Alasdair Maclean

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Birth, Harm and the Role of Distributive Justice

Burdens, Blessings, Need and Desert

By: Alasdair Maclean

This book looks at the issue of harm in relation to wrongful birth, wrongful life and wrongful pregnancy claims. While addressing the issue of whether English Law is coherent and consistent in these cases, Alasdair Maclean also draws comparisons with other jurisdictions looking at the different legal approaches of the US, Australia, France and Holland. The book then goes on to investigate the issues of harm and the relationship between distributive justice and corrective justice, exploring the implications for tort theory more generally.

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Routledge Cavendish

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0415465354

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9780415465359

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