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The right to life and the value of life [electronic resource] : orientations in law, politics, and ethics / edited by Jon Yorke.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Law, justice, and powerPublication details: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2010.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 448 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780754695066 (ebook)
  • 0754695069 (ebook)
  • 0754677613 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9780754677611 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Right to life and the value of life.DDC classification:
  • 179.7 22
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Contents:
Introduction : the right to life and the value of life: orientations in law, politics and ethics / Jon Yorke -- Politics and the philosophy of life : towards a normative framework / Mark Olssen -- The exemplary exception : philosophical and political decisions in Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer / Andrew Norris -- The value of life : somatic ethics and the spirit of biocapital / Nikolas Rose -- How we value life : George Bailey and the life not worthy of being lived / Stephen Smith -- The right to take life : killing and death in armed conflict / Agnieszka Jachec-Neale -- The right to life of detainees in armed conflict / Susan Breau -- At the hands of the state : when arrest and imprisonment prove fatal / Caroline Fournet -- International criminal justice and the death penalty / Steven Freeland -- The right to life and abolition of the death penalty in the council of Europe / Jon Yorke -- The death penalty and Russia / Bill Bowring -- Assisted suicide, voluntary euthanasia, and the right to life / David Benatar -- Positive and negative obligations under the right to life in English medical law : letting patients die / Elizabeth Wicks -- Conjoined twins : separation as lethal mutilation / Helen Watt -- Access to medicines and the right to (cultural) life / Johanna Gibson -- Assessing vitality : infertility and the the good life in urban China / Ayo Wahlberg -- Illiberal biopolitics and embryonic life : the governance of human embryonic stem cell research in China / Kerstin Klein.
Summary: "This groundbreaking book is the first collection to investigate the law, political science and ethical perspectives collectively in relation to the right and value of life. It presents a much-needed examination of key issues in a broad practical and theoretical context, and holds broad appeal for scholars, researchers, and students occupied with issues of war, armed conflict, the death penalty, and various contemporary medico-legal scenarios"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the right to life and the value of life: orientations in law, politics and ethics / Jon Yorke -- Politics and the philosophy of life : towards a normative framework / Mark Olssen -- The exemplary exception : philosophical and political decisions in Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer / Andrew Norris -- The value of life : somatic ethics and the spirit of biocapital / Nikolas Rose -- How we value life : George Bailey and the life not worthy of being lived / Stephen Smith -- The right to take life : killing and death in armed conflict / Agnieszka Jachec-Neale -- The right to life of detainees in armed conflict / Susan Breau -- At the hands of the state : when arrest and imprisonment prove fatal / Caroline Fournet -- International criminal justice and the death penalty / Steven Freeland -- The right to life and abolition of the death penalty in the council of Europe / Jon Yorke -- The death penalty and Russia / Bill Bowring -- Assisted suicide, voluntary euthanasia, and the right to life / David Benatar -- Positive and negative obligations under the right to life in English medical law : letting patients die / Elizabeth Wicks -- Conjoined twins : separation as lethal mutilation / Helen Watt -- Access to medicines and the right to (cultural) life / Johanna Gibson -- Assessing vitality : infertility and the the good life in urban China / Ayo Wahlberg -- Illiberal biopolitics and embryonic life : the governance of human embryonic stem cell research in China / Kerstin Klein.

"This groundbreaking book is the first collection to investigate the law, political science and ethical perspectives collectively in relation to the right and value of life. It presents a much-needed examination of key issues in a broad practical and theoretical context, and holds broad appeal for scholars, researchers, and students occupied with issues of war, armed conflict, the death penalty, and various contemporary medico-legal scenarios"--Provided by publisher.

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