Defining Harm Religious Freedom and the Limits of the Law

Name: Defining Harm Religious Freedom and the Limits of the Law
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ISBN: 9780774814300

ISBN-10: 0774814306

ISBN-13: 9780774814300

Edition: 2008

Authors: Lori G. Beaman

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Defining Harm tells the story of Bethany Hughes, a Jehovah’s Witness, and her legal battle to define the parameters of her medical treatment. Hughes refused to accept blood transfusions prescribed by physicians as part of her treatment for cancer. Drawing from literature on risk society, governance, feminist legal theory, and religious rights, Defining Harm demonstrates how Bethany Hughes was denied her right to refuse treatment on the basis of her religious conviction as a Jehovah’s Witness or as a mature minor. A powerful examination of the governance of a religious citizen and of the limits of religious freedom, Defining Harm will appeal to scholars and students in law and the social…

Book details

List price: $37.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Publication date: 7/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.97" long x 0.54" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English