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245 4 _aThe rights to life and the value of life: orientations in law politics and ethics/
_cedited by Jon Yorke
260 _aEngland:
_bRouledge,
_c2010.
300 _a448p.
505 _aThe right to life and the value of life : orientations in law, politics, and philosophy / 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.
700 _aYorke, Jon (ed)
942 _cWB16