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  • Freedom of Self-determination

    Hierarchical Display of Freedom of self-determination Social Questions > Health > Health policy > Rights of the individualSocial Questions > Health > Health policy > Social problem > Suicide Freedom of self-determination Concept of Freedom of self-determination See the dictionary […]

  • Demography

    Demography (in the Human Development Area) In this context, Demography means: science that studies the patterns of its population and development in the socio-historical implications; description of statistical data on age and sex composition of the population of the Earth, its regions and […]

  • Demography

    Demography (in the Human Development Area) In this context, Demography means: science that studies the patterns of its population and development in the socio-historical implications; description of statistical data on age and sex composition of the population of the Earth, its regions and […]

  • Life Expectancy

    Health-adjusted Life Expectancy (hale) (in the Human Development Area) In this context, Health-adjusted Life Expectancy (hale) means: an indicator that firstly was introduced by WHO as average number of years that a person can expect to live in "full health" by taking into account […]

  • Death

    Hierarchical Display of Death Social Questions > Social affairs > Social lifeSocial Questions > Demography and population > Demography > MortalitySocial Questions > Social affairs > Social problem > SuicideSocial Questions > Social protection > Social security > Social-security […]

  • Judaism

    Judaism Judaism in Babylonia The Jews themselves were during this period engaged in building up a system of isolation on their own side, but they treated Roman law with greater hospitality than it meted out to them. The Talmud shows the influence of that law in many points, and may justly be […]

  • Mental Health

    Law and Mental Health Contents of Law and Mental Health Contents of this subject matter include: Introduction to mental health and the law What is mental disorder? – Intellectual disability, mental illness/psychosocial disability and other mental conditions Clinical expert witnesses […]

  • Euthanasia

    Introduction to EuthanasiaEuthanasia, practice of mercifully ending a person's life in order to release the person from an incurable disease, intolerable suffering, or undignified death. The word euthanasia derives from the Greek for "good death" and originally referred to int…

  • Euthanasia

    Introduction to EuthanasiaEuthanasia, practice of mercifully ending a person's life in order to release the person from an incurable disease, intolerable suffering, or undignified death. The word euthanasia derives from the Greek for "good death" and originally referred to int…

  • German Concentration Camp System

    German Concentration Camp System German authorities under National Socialism established a variety of detention facilities to confine those whom they defined as political, ideological, or racial opponents of the regime. In time their extensive camp system came to include concentration camps, where persons were incarcerated without observation of the standard norms applying to arrest and…

  • VIOLENCE

    VIOLENCE The (usually intentional) use of harmful force; studies involving religion include examinations of international religious violence (e.g., Indian and Pakistani tensions), violence between groups and society (e.g., the Sikh nationalist movement), violence among groups (e.g., Protestants versus Catholics in Northern Ireland), violence among members (e.g., members’ murders of other Jonestown followers), and violence against…

  • Dictionary of Essential Legal Terms

    The Dictionary of Essential Legal Terms Details of The Dictionary of Essential Legal Terms Author: Amy Hackney Blackwell Date of publishing: 2008 Publisher: Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc, Naperville, Illinois 60567-4410, United States Contents of The Dictionary of Essential Legal Terms Abandon Abatable Nuisance Abate Abatement of a Legacy Abatement of Taxes Abdicate…

  • List of people who disappeared mysteriously

    List of people who disappeared mysteriously This is a list of people who have mysteriously disappeared, relating chronologically cases of disappearance recorded in the course of history that have occurred to notorious people and in unenlightened circumstances. Before 1800 71 BC – although supposedly died in battle, the body of the rebel slave Spartacus was…

  • Authors of Legal Dictionaries

    Authors of Law Dictionaries Albericus de Rosate, 1290-1360: Albericus’s Dictionarium Area: (Roman/Canon Law, 1581) Albericus was “born in Rosciate, near Bergamo, around 1290. He studied in Padua under Oldradus da Ponte and Riccardus Malumbra. He studied also under Ranieri di Forlì and received advice and help from Bartolo da Sassoferrato. In the second decade of…

  • Encyclopedia of Civil Liberties in America

    The Encyclopedia of Civil Liberties in America Editors: David Schultz, John Vile Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7656-8063-7 Content of the Encyclopedia ANP ATCA Attainder, Bill of AU CIA DOJ EDPA FBI FCC Friend of the Court Gay Rights IRS Jim Crow Laws Original Intent Patents Procedural Due Process Rochin v. California (1952) Section…