The body and the state : habeas corpus and American jurisprudence / Cary Federman.

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2006], ©2006.

xi, 242 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-234) and index.

Habeas corpus in the new American state, 1789-1915 -- Bodily inventions : the habeas petitioner and the corporation, 1886 -- Habeas corpus as counternarrative : the rise of due process, 1923-1953 -- Confessions and the narratives of justice, 1963-1979 -- Future dangerousness and habeas corpus, 1982-2002 -- Habeas corpus and the narratives of terrorism, 1996-2002.