from abortion to stem cells, understanding crime, law, and morality in America /
John Dombrink and Daniel Hillyard
New York :
New York University Press,
c2007
xi, 331 p. ;
23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-309) and index
Changing moralities : shifts in American attitudes and law in the "moral values" debate -- Painless prosperity : the spread of legal gambling -- Abortion : contestation and ambivalence in the long era of Roe v. Wade -- Gay rights : beyond tolerance and privacy to equality -- Assisted suicide : the road to new rules of dying -- Stem cells : framing battles and the race for a cure -- Conclusion: To form a more purple union?