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Body law and the body of law : a comparative study of social norm inclusion in Norwegian and American laws /
The book examines how laws on sterilization, birth control and abortion were created, by focusing on the act of legislation; how the law was driven by scientific and social norms during the first and closing decades of the 20th century in the USA (especially in the state of Indiana) and Norway. The...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Warsaw [Poland] ; Berlin [Germany] :
De Gruyter Open,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Theories explained and methodology used
- Case one : a comparison between Indiana (1907) and Norway (1934)
- Case one : legal norm injection points in Indiana and Norway : the selection of particular bodies
- Case two : reversals of negative body-law in the United States
- Case two : reversals of body-law in Norway : birth control and abortion
- Comparisons and conclusions.