Birth Rites and Rights

Birth Rites and Rights
Author: Fatemeh Ebtehaj
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2011-07-29
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1847318576

This multi-disciplinary collection of essays from the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group is concerned with the varying circumstances, manner, timing and experiences of birth. It contains essays from a wide range of disciplines including law, medicine, anthropology, history and sociology, examining birth from the perspectives of mother, doctor, midwife and father. Questions considered in the book include: who has power during the birthing process? How has the experience of birth changed over time? Should birth mark a significant change in the legal status of the foetus? What is the proper role of birth registration? What role, if any, do fathers have in the birthing process? What legal rights should the woman have to refuse treatment during the birthing process? What is the significance of changes of the age at which women give birth? This stimulating collection of papers provides new insights into one of life's most momentous moments.

Tracing Your Ancestors in the National Archives

Tracing Your Ancestors in the National Archives
Author: Amanda Bevan
Publisher: National Archives UK
Total Pages: 582
Release: 2006-04-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

The new edition of the essential family history title: the only exhaustive guide to The National Archives holdings.

Principles and Recommendations for a Vital Statistics System, Revision 3

Principles and Recommendations for a Vital Statistics System, Revision 3
Author: United Nations. Statistical Office
Publisher:
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2014
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN:

The publication is an international standard on the design and operation of an efficient and accurate vital statistics system at national level. It provides guidelines on collection, compiling and disseminating vital statistics. More specifically it contains (a) basic principles for a vital statistics system; (b) uses of vital statistics and civil registration records; (c) topics to be covered in a vital statistics system; (d) sources of vital statistics and how they function; (e) quality assurance in the vital statistics system and (f) strategies in improving civil registration and vital statistics systems in countries. It also informs policy makers and the general public on the importance of vital statistics and hence further improving the vital statistics system.

Law, Registration, and the State

Law, Registration, and the State
Author: Jess Smith
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2023-07-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1000913953

This book provides an original and compelling analysis of registration as a dynamic process which makes and unmakes legal identities. Critical legal and socio-legal scholarship tends to assume that registration is a textually mediated act of statecraft which governs through the technology of writing. Taking a different approach, this book develops movement as socio-legal method to illustrate the legal, social, and bureaucratic layers of movement which unfold in everyday engagements with the law. The book presents empirical and theoretical analysis of historical, contemporary, and future-oriented places of registration: a community hub, a city of pilgrimage, and the General Register Office. Drawing from diverse perspectives across anthropology, geography, sociology, architecture, and mobility studies, the book argues for an understanding of registration as evolving, socially constructed, and shaped by spatial imaginaries which are materialised in its architecture. This mobile understanding of registration expands conceptual discussions of legal materiality whilst opening up possibilities for legal identities unconstrained by the assumed desirability of stability or endurance. This interdisciplinary book will appeal primarily to a sociolegal, critical legal, and legal geography readership; but it will also be of interest to those in other disciplines concerned with materiality, movement, and statecraft.