{"product_id":"the-supreme-court-in-the-howard-ball-9780814798621","title":"The Supreme Court in the Intimate Lives of Americans: Birth, Sex, Marriage, Childrearing, and Death","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e Outstanding Academic Title 2003\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cb\u003eThe Supreme Court in the Intimate Lives of Americans\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Howard Ball\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814798624\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814798621\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 265\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.28h x 6.28w x 0.90d","brand":"Howard Ball","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086927278335,"sku":"9780814798621","price":107.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d4d4d33d-3b34-46e8-951c-2fc37f7809ad.jpg?v=1769097330","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-supreme-court-in-the-howard-ball-9780814798621","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}