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| 005 | 20190916113357.0 | ||
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| 008 | 100212s2010 enk ob 001 0 eng d | ||
| 020 | _a9780754695066 (ebook) | ||
| 020 | _a0754695069 (ebook) | ||
| 020 | _a0754677613 (hardback : alk. paper) | ||
| 020 | _a9780754677611 (hardback : alk. paper) | ||
| 020 | _z9780754677611 (hardback : alk. paper) | ||
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_aThe right to life and the value of life _h[electronic resource] : _borientations in law, politics, and ethics / _cedited by Jon Yorke. |
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_aFarnham, Surrey, England ; _aBurlington, VT : _bAshgate, _cc2010. |
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| 300 | _a1 online resource (xvi, 448 p.) | ||
| 490 | 1 | _aLaw, justice and power series. | |
| 500 | _aIncludes index. | ||
| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aIntroduction : 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. | |
| 520 | _a"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. | ||
| 538 | _aAvailable electronically via the Internet. | ||
| 590 | _aEBL purchased title. | ||
| 650 | 0 | _aRight to life. | |
| 650 | 0 | _aHuman rights. | |
| 650 | 0 | _aSocial ethics. | |
| 653 | _aPHILOSOPHY | ||
| 653 | _aHuman rights. | ||
| 653 | _aRight to life. | ||
| 653 | _aSocial ethics. | ||
| 653 | _aElectronic books. | ||
| 700 | 1 | _aYorke, Jon. | |
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_iPrint version: _tRight to life and the value of life. _dFarnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2010 _z9780754677611 _w(DLC) 2010006003 _w(OCoLC)521754045. |
| 830 | 0 | _aLaw, justice, and power. | |
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_uhttp://VU.eblib.com.au/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=546515 _zFull-text via ProQuest Ebook Central |
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