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The rights to life and the value of life: orientations in law politics and ethics/ edited by Jon Yorke

Contributor(s): Yorke, Jon (ed)Material type: Text

TextPublication details: England: Rouledge, 2010Description: 448pISBN: 9780754677611DDC classification: 342.085

Contents:

The 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	342.085 YOR/T (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P28677

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The 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.

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