Twice denied admission to a California medical school despite better grades and test scores than successful minority applicants, Allan Bakke took his grievance to court and set off a major controversy
Examines international efforts to punish perpetrators of genocide and other war crimes, combining history, politics, and critical analysis. Traces efforts to create an institution to judge and punish
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2003 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
This book presents the background and history of genocide, the key issues associated with this worldwide crime, and the inherent problems with preventing its occurrence.
This book provides a comprehensive and contemporary examination of the right-to-die issues facing society now that vast improvements in public health care and medicine have resulted in people not only
This handbook provides brief biographies of the major players responsible for U.S. national security, and reprints portions of the USA Patriot Act, a 2001 report on foreign terrorist organizations, th
Over the past hundred years, average life expectancy in America has nearly doubled, due largely to scientific and medical advances, but also as a consequence of safer working conditions, a heightened
While the specifics of individual wars vary, they share a common epilogue: the task of finding and identifying the “disappeared.” The Bosnian war of the early 1990s, which destroyed the sovereign stat
A legal history of euthanasia in America offers a state-by-state comparison of legislation in support of and in opposition to physician-assisted death, following battles to legalize the practice in su
