حق به زندگی و ارزش زندگی: جهت‌گیری‌ها در حقوق، سیاست و اخلاق (حقوق، عدالت و قدرت)

This groundbreaking book is the first collection to investigate together the law, political science and philosophical perspectives on the right and value of life. Its contributions are organized around five themes: a theoretical positioning of life and death; war, armed conflict and detention; death as punishment; medical parameters for ending life; and, medical policies for the preservation of life. The essays, written by an international roster of scholars, seek to engage with the evolution of the law, political discourse and philosophy on the right to life and the value of life in an attempt to understand its contemporary orientations within the selected multi-jurisdictional flora and interdisciplinary contexts. In studying this issue in its contemporary contexts of 'right' and 'value', the volume fills the current scholarly lacuna in the general subject of the orientations of life. Moreover, it holds broad appeal for scholars, researchers, and students occupied with issues of war, armed conflict, the death penalty, and various contemporary medico-legal scenarios. "The Right to Life and the Value of Life" presents a much-needed examination of key issues in a broad practical and theoretical context. Cover 1 Contents 6 List of Contributors 8 Acknowledgements 14 List of Abbreviations 16 1 Introduction: The Right to Life and the Value of Life: Orientations in Law, Politics and Ethics 18 Part I Approaching the Horizons of Life and Death 54 2 Politics and the Philosophy of Life: Towards a Normative Framework 56 3 The Exemplary Exception: Philosophical and Political Decisions in Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer 82 4 The Value of Life: Somatic Ethics and the Spirit of Biocapital 102 5 How We Value Life: George Bailey and the Life Not Worthy of Being Lived 118 Part II The Vicissitudes of Armed Conflict and Detention 134 6 The Right to Take Life: Killing and Death in Armed Conflict 136 7 The Right to Life of Detainees in Armed Conflict 160 8 At the Hands of the State: When Arrest and Imprisonment Prove Fatal 186 Part III The Denunciation of the Death Penalty 208 9 International Criminal Justice and the Death Penalty 210 10 The Right to Life and Abolition of the Death Penalty in the Council of Europe 250 11 The Death Penalty and Russia 286 Part IV Medical Countenance at the End of Life 306 12 Assisted Suicide, Voluntary Euthanasia, and the Right to Life 308 13 Positive and Negative Obligations under the Right to Life in English Medical Law: Letting Patients Die 328 14 Conjoined Twins: Separation as Lethal Mutilation 354 Part V Access to Medical Treatment and the Preservation of (New) Life 366 15 Access to Medicines and the Right to (Cultural) Life 368 16 Assessing Vitality: Infertility and ‘Good Life’ in Urban China 388 17 Illiberal Biopolitics and ‘Embryonic Life’: The Governance of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research in China 416 Index 440 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. 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. Its contributions from international roster of scholars are organized around five themes: a theoretical positioning of life and death; War, armed conflict and detention; Death as punishment; Medical parameters for ending life; and medical policies for the preservation of life. In studying this issue in its contemporary contexts of'right'and'value,'the volume fills the current scholarly lacuna in the general subject of the orientations 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. 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. Its contributions from international roster of scholars are organized around five a theoretical positioning of life and death; War, armed conflict and detention; Death as punishment; Medical parameters for ending life; and medical policies for the preservation of life. In studying this issue in its contemporary contexts of "right" and "value," the volume fills the current scholarly lacuna in the general subject of the orientations 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. "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"--Provided by publisher In studying this issue in its contemporary contexts of "right" and "value," the volume fills the current scholarly lacuna in the general subject of the orientations 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."--Pub. desc