The Right to Die : : Policy Innovation and Its Consequences / / Henry R. Glick.
Presents the political story of the right to die and how it developed in the 1940's and then became a controversial issue in the 1980's and 1990's . Looks at when and why the issue received media attention and reached the Supreme Court and Congress.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1992] ©1992 |
| Year of Publication: | 1992 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Death, Technology, and Politics
- 2. Agenda Setting and Innovation in State Politics
- 3. The Rise of the Right to Die Issue
- 4. Three Paths to Innovation
- 5. The Right to Die in Court
- 6. Lawmaking and the Right to Die
- 7. A National Right to Die?
- Notes
- Case References
- General References
- Index