When Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children, and the Law

by ShawnFrancisPeters (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $71.90

  This book to fully examines the web of legal and ethical questions that arise when criminal prosecutions are mounted against parents whose children die as a result of religion-based medical neglect. It explores efforts to balance judicial protections for the religious liberty of faith-healers against the state's obligation to the rights of children.