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Personal rights, such as the right to procreate - or not - and the right to die generate endless debate. This book maps out the legal, political, and ethical issues swirling around personal rights. Howard Ball shows how the Supreme Court has grappled with the right to reproduce and to abort, and takes on the issue of auto-euthanasia and assisted suicide, from Karen Ann Quinlan through Kevorkian and just recently to the Florida case of the woman who was paralyzed by a gunshot from her mother and who had the plug pulled on herself. For the last half of the twentieth century, the justices of the Supreme Court have had to wrestle with new and difficult life and death questions for them as well as for doctors and their patients, medical ethicists, sociologists, medical practitioners, clergy, philosophers, law makers, and judges. "The Supreme Court in the Intimate Lives of Americans" offers a look at these issues as they emerged and examines the manner in which the men and women of the U.S. Supreme Court addressed them.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political control & freedoms

• Full title: Supreme Court in the Intimate Lives of Americans
• Subtitle: Procreation, Abortion, and Death with Dignity Before the Law
• Author: Howard Ball
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 265
• EAN: 9780814798621
• ISBN: 0814798624
• ID: 04932960
• Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Weight: 499 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. August 2002

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