The human body on trial
Subtitle: a handbook with cases, laws, and documents
By: Lynne Curry.
Series: ABC-CLIO's on trial series; On trial
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Body, Human -- Law and legislation -- United States
Description: "The question of an individual's rights to bodily autonomy versus the state's power to regulate and control the bodies of its citizens is a difficult question indeed, and more important than it seems. In a series of landmark cases, U.S. courts have tackled these difficult questions. Their answers make up an evolving legal precedent as complex, fascinating, and difficult as the questions.".

"In The Human Body on Trial, the first reference book to systematically examine this topic, historian Lynne Curry draws on close readings of U.S. Supreme Court and other twentieth-century legal decisions, supporting case materials, public health records, and legal and medical theory.".

"The volume offers an extensive documents section of court decisions; an A-Z list of people, laws, and concepts; and a table of cases cited. An annotated bibliography and comprehensive index make this handbook an invaluable tool for scholars and students of political science, law, gender and ethnic studies, and civil rights."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-225) and index.
Table of contents: title: Constitutionalizing the body; title: The human body as a form of property; title: The regulatory state; title: The right to privacy; title: A confusing legacy; title: Historical background; title: Medicalizing the body; title: The germ theory; title: Eugenics; title: The crusade for birth control; title: A revival of rights; title: The end of life; title: Compulsory vaccination : private rights versus police powers; title: Mandatory sterilization : eugenics on trial; title: Contraception, abortion, and the right to die : privacy on trial; title: Legacy and impact; title: End-of-life issues on trial; title: Biotechnology on trial; title: Documents; title: Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution; title: Anti-vaccination circular, distributed during the epidemic of small pox in Boston, 1901; title: Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905); title: Zucht v. King (1922); title: Buck v. Bell (1927); title: Skinner v. Oklahoma (1942); title: Griswold v. Connecticut (1965); title: Roe et al. v. Wade (1973); title: Bowers, Attorney General of Georgia v. Hardwick, et al. (1986); title: Webster, et al. v. Reproductive Health Services, et al. (1989); title: Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania, et al. v. Casey (1992); title: Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Public Health (1990); title: Washington, et al., petitioners v. Harold Glucksberg, et al. (1997); title: Oregon's Death with Dignity Act; title: Key people, laws, and concepts.