TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yorke,Jon
TI  - The right to life and the value of life: orientations in law, politics, and ethics 
T2  - Law, justice and power series
SN  - 9780754695066 (ebook)
U1  - 179.7 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Farnham, Surrey, England, Burlington, VT
PB  - Ashgate
KW  - Right to life
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Social ethics
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - "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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