Introduction: The right to life and the value of life: Orientations in law, politics and ethics

The Right to Life and the Value of Life: Orientations in Law, Politics and Ethics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-36

  Yorke, Jon ^a  

^a BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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