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Laboratory of justice : the Supreme Court's 200-year struggle to integrate science and the law
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- Creator
- David L. Faigman
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : Times Books, 2004
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 417 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780805072747, 0805072748
- OCLC
- ocm54504037
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [387]-398) and index.
- The lesson of leeches -- If men were angels: a Constitution by and for "corruptible human hands" -- A covenant with death: Dred Scott and the biology of slavery -- The roots of modernity: Holmes, Brandeis, and the new legal science -- "Let us not become legal monks": legal realism and the realistic jurisprudence of the Supreme Court -- "Attainder of blood": race and eugenics in the 1940s -- Autocracy of caste: Brown v. Board of Education and the golden age of social science -- The right to be let alone: privacy and the problem of defining life and death -- Lifter or leveler?: equal protection in the land of rugged individualism -- In the Supreme Court we trust: science and supposition in the Religion Clauses -- Shouting fire: the moral and empirical consequences of free speech -- The house that the Court built: the future of science at the Supreme Court