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The right to life and the value of life : orientations in law, politics, and ethics
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The right to life and the value of life : orientations in law, politics, and ethics

Auteur : Jon Yorke
Éditeur : Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2010.
Collection : Law, justice, and power.
Édition/format :  Livre électronique : AnglaisVoir toutes les éditions et les formats
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"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  Lire la suite...
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Genre/forme : Electronic books
Format – détails additionnels : Print version:
Right to life and the value of life.
Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2010
(DLC) 2010006003
(OCoLC)521754045
Type d’ouvrage : Ressource Internet
Format : Ressource Internet, Fichier informatique
Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs : Jon Yorke
ISBN : 9780754695066 0754695069 0754677613 9780754677611
Numéro OCLC : 649914478
Notes : Includes index.
Description : 1 online resource (xvi, 448 p.)
Contenu : 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.
Titre de collection : Law, justice, and power.
Responsabilité : edited by Jon Yorke.
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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  Lire la suite...

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