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Ruby, Lois
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MIRIAM'S WELL
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New York : Scholastic, 1993.
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IL YA
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ISBN 0590449370
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is a fascinating book of rights. Miriam has cancer. She belongs to a sect
which forbids medical treatment. Her poetry partner at school thinks this
is barbaric and wants the school to advocate for her right to treatment.
This partner's dad is a lawyer who is willing to take the family and the
church side of the issue. It is a book that covers the legality of parental
authority over even older teens: the separation of church and state, the
limitation of medical treatment and the power of faith. In the end, she
gets the medical treatment forced on her by the courts but she believed
in the faith healing of Brother James, so there is no resolution of what
"worked" but Miriam's well. |
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SUBJECTS:
Cancer -- Patients -- Fiction.
Sects -- Fiction. |
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