James D. Torr
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Examines the Patriot Act, a piece of legislation passed in the weeks following the 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S., designed to provide the citizens of the country with greater security, looks at the key provisions of the Patriot Act, and discusses charges that the Act violates civil rights protections.
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
As medical technology advances, doctors are faced with increasingly complex decisions about life and death. The authors in this anthology debate what principles should guide physicians' conduct in the following tentative chapters: What Ethics Should Guide Organ Donations? Are Reproductive Technologies Ethical? Is Human Cloning Ethical? Does Physician-Assisted Suicide Violate Medical Ethics?
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Contains essays in which the authors debate questions related to teens and alcohol, discussing the seriousness of underage drinking, problems associated with teen alcohol abuse, the influence of advertising, the effectiveness of laws in keeping teens from drinking, and various measures for reducing teen alcohol abuse.
12) Guns and crime
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Contains ten essays that provide varying perspectives on issues related to gun control, discussing whether gun ownership causes violent crime, and debating the effectiveness of several gun control laws, including ballistic fingerprinting.
16) The 1980s
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
Essays discuss the political, social, and cultural trends of the 1980s as well as such pivotal events as the Iran-Contra affair, the fall of the Berlin wall, the Challenger disaster, and the beginning of the AIDS epidemic
18) Organized crime
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
A collection of articles, personal accounts, and case studies that discuss how organized crime threatens society.