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