THE RIGHT TO LIFE AND THE VALUE OF LIFEPDF电子书下载

1 Introduction: The Right to Life and the Value of Life: Orientations in Law, Politics and Ethics&Jon Yorke 1

PART Ⅰ APPROACHING THE HORIZONS OF LIFE AND DEATH 39

2 Politics and the Philosophy of Life: Towards a Normative Framework7Mark Olssen 39

3 The Exemplary Exception: Philosophical and Political Decisions in Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer&Andrew Norris 65

4 The Value of Life: Somatic Ethics and the Spirit of Biocapital&Nikolas Rose 85

5 How We Value Life: George Bailey and the Life Not Worthy of Being Lived&Stephen Smith 101

PART Ⅱ THE VICISSITUDES OF ARMED CONFLICT AND DETENTION 119

6 The Right to Take Life: Killing and Death in Armed Conflict&Agnieszka Jachec-Neale 119

7 The Right to Life of Detainees in Armed Conflict&Susan Breau 143

8 At the Hands of the State: When Arrest and Imprisonment Prove Fatal&Caroline Fournet 169

PART Ⅲ THE DENUNCIATION OF THE DEATH PENALTY 193

9 International Criminal Justice and the Death Penalty&Steven Freeland 193

10 The Right to Life and Abolition of the Death Penalty in the Council of Europe&Jon Yorke 233

11 The Death Penalty and Russia&Bill Bowring 269

PART Ⅳ MEDICAL COUNTENANCE AT THE END OF LIFE 291

12 Assisted Suicide, Voluntary Euthanasia, and the Right to Life&David Benatar 291

13 Positive and Negative Obligations under the Right to Life in English Medical Law: Letting Patients Die&Elizabeth Wicks 311

14 Conjoined Twins: Separation as Lethal Mutilation&Helen W 337

PART Ⅴ ACCESS TO MEDICAL TREATMENT AND THE PRESERVATION OF (NEW) LIFE 351

15 Access to Medicines and the Right to (Cultural) Life&Johanna Gibson 351

16 Assessing Vitality: Infertility and 'Good Life' in Urban China&Ayo Wahlberg 371

17 Illiberal Biopolitics and 'Embryonic Life': The Governance of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research in China&Kerstin Klein 399

Index 423