The Supreme Court in the Intimate Lives of Americans

The Supreme Court in the Intimate Lives of Americans

by Howard Ball
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 21/11/2023

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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.

ISBN:
9780814709085
9780814709085
Category:
Human rights & civil liberties law
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
21-11-2023
Language:
English
Publisher:
NYU Press

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