Making All the Difference : : Inclusion, Exclusion, and American Law / / Martha Minow.

Should a court order medical treatment for a severely disabled newborn in the face of the parents' refusal to authorize it? How does the law apply to a neighborhood that objects to a group home for developmentally disabled people? Does equality mean treating everyone the same, even if such trea...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (424 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Making a Difference
  • Part I. Dilemmas of Difference
  • 1. The Dilemma of Difference
  • 2. Sources of Difference
  • 3. Ways Out
  • Part II. Historical Difference
  • 4. When Difference Has Its Home
  • 5. Different Histories
  • 6. Rights Theories and Contemporary Legal Debates
  • 7. The Emergence of the Social-Relations Approach
  • Part III. Rights in Relationship
  • 8. Problems in Relationship: Today's Feminism and Yesterday'S Progressivism
  • 9. Rights and Relations: Families and Children
  • 10. Dying and Living
  • 11. Knowing and Judging
  • Afterword: Different Beginnings: Making All the Difference
  • Table of Cases
  • Index