The Supreme Court in the Intimate Lives of Americans: Birth, Sex, Marriage, Childrearing, and Death - Hardcover

Ball, Howard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814798624 ISBN 13: 9780814798621

Publisher: New York University Press, 2002

Synopsis

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2003 "...A thorough summary of the trajectory of current case law on the legal regulation of U.S. citizens' intimate lives. . . . A valuable introduction to increasingly important and salient legal questions about the constitutional limits on the state's ability to shape intimate lives in the United States." - Political Science Quarterly "...A worthy assessment of the law of intimate association and personal decision-making. For those intrigued by the Court's human side, Ball provides a sufficient glimpse without raising the curtain on its realm of privacy that the justices have strived to protect. - Trial "Despite the controversial content of many of the cases, Mr. Ball maintains an air of bemused detachment and does not openly take sides. This is not a polemic. With few exceptions, the prevailing tone is light and scholarly. The goal is to illuminate, not to persuade." -New York Law Journal "In this truly fascinating and spellbinding work, Ball tells many tales." - Choice 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Howard Ball is Professor of Political Science and University Scholar at the University of Vermont and Adjunct Professor of Law at Vermont Law School.

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Howard Ball is Emeritus Professor of Political Science and University Scholar at the University of Vermont and Adjunct Professor of Law at Vermont Law School.

Edition details

• Publisher: New York University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814798624
• ISBN 13: 9780814798621
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 265