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What&'s the Right Balance?Everyone knows the old adage, "e;an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,"e; but we seem not to live by it. In the Western world&'s health care it is commonly observed that prevention is underfunded while treatment attracts greater overall priority. This book explores this observation by examining the...

Reconciling Europe and the Nation-StateA succession of crises has marked the last decade of European integration, leading to disorientation among integration scholars. Older frameworks for understanding have been challenged, while the outlines of new ones are only now beginning to emerge. This book looks to history to provide a more durable...

On 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 very little. What is their...

Critical care happens where it is needed, not just in the ICU. Patients with acute critical illness are often cared for initially in the ED, and the beginning actions can help alter outcomes hours, day and months later. This handbook targets selected common or high risk critical condition or therapies needed to optimize ED care, using the newest...

Are there things we should value because they are, quite simply, good? If so, such things might be said to have "e;absolute goodness."e; They would be good simpliciter or full stop - not good for someone, not good of a kind, but nonetheless good (period). They might also be called "e;impersonal values."e; The reason why we ought to...

Fiduciary law is a critically important body of law. Fiduciary duties ensure the integrity of a remarkable variety of relationships, institutions, and organizations. They apply to relationships of great personal significance, including in some jurisdictions the relationship between parents and children. They structure a wide variety of commercial...