When Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children, and the Law is the first book to fully examine the complex web of legal and ethical questions that arise when criminal prosecutions are mounted against parents whose children die as a result of what experts call religion-based medical neglect. The tragic deaths of these youngsters have received intense scrutiny from both the news media and public authorities seeking to protect the health and welfare of children. Based on a wide array of primary and secondary source materials, the ...
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When Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children, and the Law is the first book to fully examine the complex web of legal and ethical questions that arise when criminal prosecutions are mounted against parents whose children die as a result of what experts call religion-based medical neglect. The tragic deaths of these youngsters have received intense scrutiny from both the news media and public authorities seeking to protect the health and welfare of children. Based on a wide array of primary and secondary source materials, the book explores efforts by the legal system to balance judicial protections for the religious liberty of faith-healers against the state's obligation to safeguard the rights of children.
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Fine in fine jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition. Hardcover. 262 pp (w/ bibliography & index). A carefully researched discussion about the complicated clash between religious freedom and child protection. This book tells the tragic stories of children whose parents and spiritual leaders rejected life-saving medical intervention in favor of prayer. The author describes the difficulty prosecutors face when extreme religious commitment results in a child's death, drawing on a wide range of examples, from Christian Scientists, to Jehovah's Witnesses, Pentacostals, and obscure cults.
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