The human body on trial : a handbook with cases, laws, and documents

The human body on trial : a handbook with cases, laws, and documents / Lynne Curry.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Curry, Lynne
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2002.
Series:On trial.
Subjects:
Human body > Law and legislation > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Constitutionalizing the body
  • The human body as a form of property
  • The regulatory state
  • The right to privacy
  • A confusing legacy
  • Historical background
  • Medicalizing the body
  • The germ theory
  • Eugenics
  • The crusade for birth control
  • A revival of rights
  • The end of life
  • Compulsory vaccination : private rights versus police powers
  • Mandatory sterilization : eugenics on trial
  • Contraception, abortion, and the right to die : privacy on trial
  • Legacy and impact
  • End-of-life issues on trial
  • Biotechnology on trial
  • Documents
  • Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
  • Anti-vaccination circular, distributed during the epidemic of small pox in Boston, 1901
  • Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905)
  • Zucht V. King (1922)
  • Buck v. Bell (1927)
  • Skinner v. Oklahoma (1942)
  • Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
  • Roe et al. v. Wade (1973)
  • Bowers, Attorney General of Georgia v. Hardwick, et al. (1986)
  • Webster, et al. v. Reproductive Health Services, et al. (1989)
  • Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania, et al. v. Casey (1992)
  • Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Public Health (1990)
  • Washington, et al., petitioners v. Harold Glucksberg, et al. (1997)
  • Oregon's Death with Dignity Act
  • Key people, laws, and concepts.

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