Engdahl, Sylvia

This anthology examines four cases concerning animal welfare: Primate Protection League v. Tulane Educational Fund, Cetacean Community v. George W. Bush, New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals et al. v. New Jersey Department of Agriculture.

This book discusses meningitis, inflammation of the membranous covering of the brain and spinal cord, including the causes of different types of meningitis, the controversies over treatments of meningitis, and the personal stories of meningitis cases.

Authors debate whether growing use of complementary and alternative therapies is beneficial, whether the government should restrict the use of alternative therapies, and whether the law exempting dietary supplements from regulation should be repealed.

Presents both sides of the argument about whether assisted suicide should be legally recognized or whether it would be immoral or lead to other forms of hastened death, and discusses whether the practice is helping or harming the terminally ill.

collection of twenty essays discussing teens' right to free press. Examines issues such as newspaper content, schools' right to censor student publications, and online journalism. Includes organizations to contact and further reading.

Presents twenty-nine essays that provide varying perspectives on issues associated with prisons, discussing the rate of incarceration in the United States, rehabilitating inmates, prison sentences as a means of crime prevention, the rights of inmates, overcrowded prisons, and more.

Presents resources for better understanding the complex, broad, and evolving legal issues about electronic devices that is facing American teens.

Discusses the historical background of the women's rights movement in the United States, addresses controversies, and features personal narratives from activists and authors involved in the movement.

Provides historical background on the Twenty-fifth Amendement to the U.S. Constitution, which deals with the role of the vice president in the event the president becomes incapacitated, draws from primary and secondary sources to look at how the amendment has been tested in the courts, and examines related controversies and debates.