The Right to Life and the Value of Life

Orientations in Law, Politics and Ethics
Herausgeber: Yorke, Jon

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A collection to investigate together the law, political science and philosophical perspectives on the right and value of life. It presents an examination of key issues in a practical and theoretical context.

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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 contemporary medico-legal scenarios.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 826g
• ISBN-13: 9780754677611
• ISBN-10: 0754677613
• Artikelnr.: 41250563

Autorenporträt

Jon Yorke, Reader in Law, BCU School of Law, Birmingham City University, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: the right to life and the value of life:
orientations in law, politics and philosophy, Jon Yorke; Part I Approaching
the Horizons of Life and Death: 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. Part II The Vicissitudes of Armed
Conflict and Detention: 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. Part III The Denunciation of
the Death Penalty: 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. Part IV Medical Countenance at the End of Life: 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. Part V Access to Medical Treatment and the
Preservation of (New) Life: Access to medicines and the right to (cultural)
life, Johanna Gibson; Assessing vitality: infertility and 'good life' in
urban China, Ayo Wahlberg; Illiberal biopolitics and 'embryonic life': the
governance of human embryonic stem cell research in China, Kerstin Klein;
Index.