Oxford University Press

Foreigners in a Carceral AgeOn any given day nearly 3000 foreign national citizens are detained under immigration powers in UK detention centres alone. Around the world immigrants are routinely detained in similar conditions. The institutions charged with immigrant detention are volatile and contested sites. They are also places about which we know...

Communication with Diverse Populations in Clinical GeneticsCommunicating with patients about genetic concepts is fraught with complications. In addition to the hazy takeaway messages and the likelihood of peripheral findings, the diverse cultural backgrounds of patients in a genetics clinic present another layer of challenge for clinicians and...

The OSCE forms the practical part of educational and professional medical examinations and is often challenging and expensive. Deconstructing the OSCE takes a fresh approach to passing OSCE exams, teaching readers how to tackle the exam in a new way. This book doesn&'t provide checklists of information needed for specific OSCE stations; instead it...

R.S. Thomas and the Literary TraditionChameleon Poet book goes against the grain of previous readings of the Welsh poet and nationalist R.S. Thomas by revealing him as profoundly indebted to the modes, traditions, and personae of the English literary canon....

Presenting the first analytical overview of the legal foundations of the EU&'s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), this book provides a detailed examination of the law and practice of the EU&'s security policy.  The European Union&'s security and defence policy has long been the focus of political scientists and international relations...

The Renaissance of Comparative Constitutional LawComparative study has emerged as the new frontier of constitutional law scholarship as well as an important aspect of constitutional adjudication. Increasingly, jurists, scholars, and constitution drafters worldwide are accepting that &'we are all comparativists now&'. And yet, despite this...