Life sentences: The modern ordering of mortality

Life Sentences: The Modern Ordering of Mortality

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-202

  Bayatrizi, Zohreh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961148202     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Book

References (285)

1. Affray, Janet, and K. Anderson, 2005. Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2. Agamben, Giorgio. 1998. Homo sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
3. Agamben, Giorgio. 2005. State of Exception. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
4. Ahrensdorf, P. 2000. The fear of death and the longing for immortality: Hobbes and Thucydides on human nature and the problem of anarchy. American Political Science Review 94(3): 579-93.
5. Alexander, J. 1988. Parsons’ ‘structure’ in American sociology. Sociological Theory 6: 96-102.
6. Annual Register and Chronicle. 1824. London: Baldwin, Cradock and Joy.
7. Arendt, Hannah. 1958. The Human Condition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
8. Arendt, Hannah. 1966. The Origins of Totalitarianism. New York: Harcourt Brace.
9. Arendt, Hannah. 1970. On Violence. New York: Harcourt.
10. Aries, Philippe. 1974. Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present, trans. P.M. Ranum. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
11. Arnason, Arnar, and S.B. Hafsteinsson. 2003. The revival of death: Expression, expertise and governmentality. British Journal of Sociology 54(1): 43-62.
12. Baker, Tom, and Jonathan Simon. 2002. Embracing Risk: The Changing Culture of Insurance and Responsibility. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
13. Balibar, Etienne. 2001. Outlines of a topography of cruelty: Citizenship and civility in the era of global violence. Constellations 8(1): 15-29.
14. Battin, Margaret. 1994. The Least Worst Death: Essays in Bioethics on the End of Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
15. Baudelaire, Charles. 1961 [1857]. The Flowers of Evil, and Other Poems. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.
16. Baudrillard, Jean. 1981. For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign, trans. C. Levin. St Louis: Telos.
17. Baudrillard, Jean. 1988. Forget Foucault, trans. N. Dufresne. Cambridge: MIT Press.
18. Baudrillard, Jean. 1993. Symbolic Exchange and Death. London and Thousand Oaks: Sage.
19. Baudrillard, Jean. 2001. The spirit of terrorism. Telos 121: 124-42.
20. Baudrillard, Jean. 2003. The Spirit of Terrorism and Other Essays, trans, C. Turner. London: Verso.
21. Bauman, Zygmunt. 1992. Mortality, Immortality, and Other Life Strategies. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
22. Bauman, Zygmunt. 1998. Postmodern adventures in life and death. In Modernity, Medicine and Health: Medical Sociology towards 2000, ed. G. Scambler and P. Higgs, 216-31. London: Routledge.
23. Beccaria, Cezare. 1963 [1764]. On Crimes and Punishments. Trans. H. Paolucci. New York: Bobbs-Merrill.
24. Beck, Ulrich. 1999. World Risk Society. Cambridge: Polity Press.
25. Becker, Ernest. 1973. The Denial of Death. New York: Free Press.
26. Bellah, Robert. 1967. Civil religion in America. Daedelus 96(1): 1-21.
27. Binding, Karl, and Alfred Hoche. 1975 [1920]. The Release of the Destruction of Life Devoid of Value, trans. and intro. Robert Sassone. Santa Ana: Robert Sassone.
28. Binion, Rudolph. 1993. Love beyond Death: The Anatomy of a Myth in the Arts. New York: New York University Press.
29. Bodin, Jean. 1962 [1576, 1586, 1606]. The Six Bookes of a Commonweale. A Facsimile Reprint of the English Translation of 1606, Corrected and Supplemented, ed. and intro. Kenneth McRae. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
30. Bourdieu, Pierre. 1991a. Authorized language: The social conditions of the effectiveness of ritual discourse. In Language and Symbolic Power, 105-16. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
31. Bourdieu, Pierre. 1991b. Rites of institution. In Language and Symbolic Power, 117-26. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
32. Brown, Thomas Sir. 1963 [1636]. Religio Medici. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
33. Buck, Peter. 1977. Seventeenth-century political arithmetic. Isis 68(1): 67-84.
34. Buckle, Henry. 1883. History of Civilization in England. New York: Appleton.
35. Buffon, George-Louis. 1792. Histoire naturelle de l’homme. Paris: Plussaw.
36. Burgess-Jackson, Keith. 1982. The legal status of suicide in early America: A comparison with the English experience. Wayne Law Review 29: 57-87.
37. Burrows, George. 1820. An Inquiry into Certain Errors Relative to Insanity and their Consequences, Physical, Moral and Civil. London: Underwood.
38. Caccamo, Rita. 1988. The symbolic frontiers of everyday life: The experience of death (title translation retrieved from Sociological Abstracts, trans. M. Polinsky). Studi di Sociologia 26(3-4): 448-62.
39. Callahan, Daniel. 1992. When self-determination runs amok. Hastings Center Report 22: 52-5.
40. Carruthers, B.G., and W.N. Espeland. 1991. Accounting for rationality: Double-entry bookkeeping and the rhetoric of economic rationality. American Journal of Sociology 91(1): 31-69.
41. Cavendish, Margaret. 1664. Philosophical Letters, or, Modest Reflections Upon Some Opinions in Natural Philosophy Maintained by Several Famous and Learned Authors of this Age, Expressed by Way of Letters. London: [s.n.].
42. Cavendish, Margaret. 1665. The philosophical and physical opinions. London: Printed for J. Martin and J. Allestrye.
43. Chadwick, Edwin. 1844. An essay on the best modes of representing accurately, by statistical returns, the pressure and progress of the causes of mortality amongst different classes of the community and amongst the populations of different districts and countries [microform]: With additional proofs and illustrations of the doctrine advanced in the sanitary report that epidemic diseases increase the pressure of population. Quarterly Journal of the Statistical Society of London. Goldsmiths’ Kress microfilm collection 5346: 33691.1.
44. Chadwick, Edwin, and the Poor Law Commissioners of Great Britain. 1965 [1842]. Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Gt. Britain. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
45. Charleton, Walter. 1668 [1651 or 1652]. The Ephesian and Cemmerian matrons: Two notable examples of the power of love and wit: In the Savoy: Printed for Henry Herringman.
46. Chevalier, Louis. 1973. Laboring Classes and Dangerous Classes in Paris during the First Half of the Nineteenth Century. Trans. F. Jellinek. New York: Howard Fertig.
47. Clark, Geoffrey. 1999. Betting on Lives: The Culture of Life Insurance in England, 1695-1775. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
48. Condorcet, Marquis de. 1795. Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind. London: J. Johnson.
49. Crocker, Lester. 1952. The discussion of suicide in the eighteenth century. Journal of the History of Ideas 13: 47-72.
50. Cullen, Michael J. 1975. The Statistical Movement in Early Victorian Britain: The Foundations of Empirical Social Research. New York: Harvester Press.
51. Daston, Lorraine. 1988. Classical Probability in the Enlightenment. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
52. Daube, David. 1972. The linguistics of suicide. Philosophy and Public Affairs1(4): 387-437.
53. Davidoff, Frank. 2002. Lessons from the dying. In Assisted Suicide: Finding Common Ground, ed. L. Snyder and A. Caplan, 98-105. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
54. Davis, Malvin E. 1944. Industrial Life Insurance in the United States. 1st ed. New York and London: McGraw-Hill.
55. De Beauvoir, Simone. 1995 [1946]. All Men Are Mortal. London: Virago.
56. De Moivre, Abraham. 1725. Annuities upon Lives, Or, the Valuation of Annuities upon any Number of Lives, as also, of Reversion. London: W.P.
57. Dean, Mitchell. 1999. Governmentality: Power and Rule in Modern Society. London: Sage.
58. Derrida, Jacques. 1995. The Gift of Death: Religion and Postmodernism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
59. A Dialogve betwixt a horse of warre and a mill-horse [microform]: Wherein the content and safety of an humble and painfull life is preferred above all the noyse, the tumults, and trophies of the warre: Full of harmelesse mirth and variety. 1643. London: Bernard Alsop, retrieved from the Early English Books, 1641-1700 microfilm set, 241: E80 (5).
60. Dickens, Charles. 1859. A Tale of Two Cities. London: Chapman and Hall.
61. Doran, Nob 1994. Risky Business: Codifying Embodied Experience in the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows. Journal of Historical Sociology 7(2): 131-53.
62. Douglas, Mary. 1966. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
63. Durkheim, Emile. 1951 [1897]. Suicide: A Study in Sociology. New York: Free Press.
64. Durkheim, Emile. 1957 [1900]. Professional Ethics and Civic Morals. London: Routledge and Paul.
65. Durkheim, Emile. 1960 [1914]. The dualism of human nature and its social conditions. In Emile Durkheim, 1858-1919: A Collection of Essays, ed. E.B.K. Wolff, 325-40. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.
66. Durkheim, Emile. 1965 [1912]. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. New York: Free Press.
67. Durkheim, Emile. 1978 [1889-1900]. Two laws of penal evolution. In Emile Durkheim on Institutional Analysis, ed. M. Traugott. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
68. Original publication: Deux lois de l’évolution pénale, L’Année Sociologique4: 65-95.
69. Durkheim, Emile. 1984 [1893]. The Division of Labor in Society, ed. W.D. Halls. New York: Free Press.
70. Durkheim, Emile. 1992 [1888]. Suicide and fertility: A study of moral statistics. European Journal of Population 8: 175-97.
71. Dworkin, R.M. 1993. Life’s Dominion: An Argument about Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom. 1st ed. New York: Knopf.
72. Elias, Norbert. 1985. The Loneliness of the Dying. Oxford: Blackwell.
73. Elias, Norbert. 2000. The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations, ed. E. Dunning et. al. Oxford: Blackwell.
74. Emanuel, Ezekiel. 2004 [1997]. Whose Right to Die? available at http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97mar/emanuel/emanuel.htm, accessed 26 May.
75. Ericson, Richard, and Aaron Doyle. 2004. Uncertain Business: Risk, Insurance and the Limits of Knowledge. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
76. Ericson, Richard, Aaron Doyle, and Dean Barry. 2003. Insurance as Governance. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
77. Esquirol, Etienne. 1965 [1838]. Mental Maladies: A Treatise on Insanity. Ed. and trans. E.K. Hunt. History of Medicine series, no. 25. New York: Hafner.
78. Farneti, Roberto. 2001. The ‘mythical foundation’ of the state: Leviathan in the emblematic context. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 82: 362-82.
79. Farren, E.J. 1844. Historical Essay on the Rise and Early Progress of the Doctrine of Life Contingencies in England, Leading to the Establishment of the First Life- Assurance Society in Which Ages Were Distinguished (Goldsmiths’-Kress microfilm collection). London: Smith Elder.
80. Fedden, Henry R. 1938. Suicide: A Social and Historical Study. London: Peter Davies.
81. Fielding, J.E. 1987. The health of health risk appraisal. Journal of Health Science Research 22: 441-52.
82. Flathman, Richard E. 1993. Thomas Hobbes: Skepticism, Individuality, and Chastened Politics. Modernity and Political Thought, vol. 2. Newbury Park: Sage.
83. Forde, Olav H. 1998. Is imposing risk awareness cultural imperialism? Social Science and Medicine 47(9): 1155-9.
84. Foucault, Michel. 1977. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. 1st U.S. ed. New York: Pantheon.
85. Foucault, Michel. 1984. The politics of health in the eighteenth century. In The Foucault Reader, ed. P. Rabinow, 273-89. New York: Pantheon.
86. Foucault, Michel. 1988a. Politics and reason. In Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings, 1977-1984, ed. L.D. Kritzman, 58-85. New York: Routledge.
87. Foucault, Michel. 1988b. Iran: The spirit of the world without spirit. In Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings, 1977-1984, ed. L.D. Kritzman, 211-27. New York: Routledge.
88. Foucault, Michel. 1990 [1978]. The History of Sexuality. 1st Vintage Books ed. New York: Vintage.
89. Foucault, Michel. 1991. Governmentality. In The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality, ed. G. Burchell, C. Gordon, and P. Miller, 87-104. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
90. Foucault, Michel. 2003. Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the College de France, 1975-76, ed. M. Bertani, A. Fontana, F. Ewald, and D. Macey. New York: Picador.
91. Fox, Nicholas J. 1993. Postmodernism, Sociology and Health. Buckingham: Open University Press.
92. Fox, Nicholas J. 1998. The promise of postmodernism for the sociology of health and medicine. In Modernity, Medicine and Health: Medical Sociology towards 2000, ed. Scambler and P. Higgs, 29-45. London: Routledge.
93. Frank, Johann Peter. 1976 [1786]. A System of Complete Medical Police: Selections from Johann Peter Frank. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
94. Freud, Sigmund. 1922. Beyond the Pleasure Principle, ed. C.J.M. Hubback. International Psycho-Analytical Library, no. 4. London: International Psycho-Analytical Press.
95. Freud, Sigmund. 1961 [1930]. Civilization and Its Discontents. Ed. J. Strachey. New York: Norton.
96. Freud, Sigmund. 1985 [1915]. Our attitude toward death. In Sigmund Freud, vol. 12, Civilization, Society, and Religion, ed. A. Richards and A. Dickson, 77-89. London: Penguin. Original edition, first read in 1915 at the B’nai B’rith Jewish Club in Vienna, under the title ‘Death and us.’
97. Freud, Sigmund. 1985 [1933]. Why war? In Sigmund Freud, vol. 12, Civilization, Society, and Religion, ed. A. Richards and A. Dickson, 349-63. London: Penguin.
98. Frey, Darcy. 1995. ‘Does anyone here think this baby can live?’ New York Times 9 July, section 6: 22.
99. Friendly, Michael. 2007. Andre Michel Guerry’s Moral Statistics of France: Challenges for Multivariable Spatial Analysis, available at http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/guerry/, accessed 4 Dec.
100. Gates, Barbara T. 1988. Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
101. Geertz, Clifford. 1973. The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays. New York: Basic Books. Gentleman’s Magazine. 1732. ii.
102. George, Dorothy. 1951 [1925]. London Life in the Eighteenth Century. 3d ed. Series of reprints of scarce works on political economy, no. 12. London: Reprinted by the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London.
103. Giddens, Anthony. 1971. The suicide problem in French sociology. In The Sociology of Suicide: A Selection of Readings, ed. A. Giddens, 36-51. London: Cass.
104. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. 1935. The Living Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Ed. R. Ashby and D.G. Ohrn. New York: Penguin.
105. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. 1994. The Diaries of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia.
106. Glass, D.V. 1973. Numbering the People: The Eighteenth-Century Population Controversy and the Development of Census and Vital Statistics in Britain. Farnbor- ough: D.C. Heath.
107. Godwin, William. 1820. Of Population. An Enquiry Concerning the Power of Increase in the Numbers of Mankind, Being an Answer to Mr Malthus’s Essay on That Subject. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown.
108. Godwin, William. 1976 [1798]. Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Modern Morals and Happiness. Baltimore: Penguin.
109. Gomez, Carlos F. 1991. Regulating Death: Euthanasia and the Case of the Netherlands. New York: Free Press.
110. Graunt, John. 1662. Natural and Political observations mentioned in a following index, and made upon the bills of mortality. London: Tho. Roycroft, retrieved from the Early English Books, 1641-1700, microfilm set, 972: 31, no. 14.
111. Green, Judith. 1999. From accidents to risk: Public health and preventable injury. Health, Risk and Society 1(1): 25-39.
112. Griffiths, John. 1995. Recent developments in the Netherlands concerning euthanasia and other medical behaviour that shortens life. Medical Law International 1: 347-86.
113. Griffiths, John. 2000. Self-regulation by the Dutch medical profession of medical behavior that potentially shortens life. In Regulating Morality: A Comparison of the Role of the State in Mastering the Mores in the Netherlands and the United States, ed. H. Krabbendam and H.M. Ten Napel, 174-90. Antwerp: Maklu.
114. Griffiths, John. 2003. Dutch data in the international debate: A statement by John Griffiths at a briefing session at the House of Lords. MBPSL Newsletter (online ed.) 8: 2-9, available at http://www.rug.nl/law/faculty/departments/rth/rechtssociologie/onderzoek/rspmb/researchprogram/newsletters/newsletter8.pdf, accessed 23 Feb. 2005.
115. Griffiths, John, Alex Bood, and Heleen Weyers. 1998. Euthanasia and Law in the Netherlands. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
116. Guerry, Andre-Michel. 2002 [1833]. A Translation of Andre-Michel Guerry’s Essay on the Moral Statistics of France (1833): A Sociological Report to the French Academy of Science, ed. H.P. Whitt, V.W. Reinking, and Academie des sciences (France). Studies in French civilization, vol. 26. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen.
117. Hacking, Ian. 1975. The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
118. Hacking, Ian. 1990. The Taming of Chance: Ideas in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
119. Hacking, Ian. 1991. How should we do the history of statistics? In The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality: With Two Lectures by and an Interview with Michel Foucault, ed. G. Burchell, C. Gordon, and P. Miller, 181-95. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
120. Halley, Edmond. 1693. An estimate of the mortality of mankind, drawn from curious Tables, of the Births and Funerals at the City of Breslaw, with an attempt to ascertain the price of annuities upon lives. Philosophical Transactions 198(17): 596-610 and 654-6.
121. Hayes, Peter. 1998. Hobbes’s bourgeois moderation. Polity 31(1): 53-74.
122. Haygarth, John. 1774. Observations on the bills of mortality in Chester, for the year 1772. Philosophical Transactions 64: 67-78.
123. Hegel, G.W.F. 1952 [1821]. Philosophy of Right. Oxford: Clarendon.
124. Heidegger, Martin. 1962. Being and Time. Trans. J. Stambaugh. Albany: State University of New York Press.
125. Heidegger, Martin. 1997. Plato’s Sophist. Trans. R. Rojcewicz and A. Schuwer. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
126. Herbert, Gary. 1989. Thomas Hobbes: The Unity of Scientific and Moral Wisdom. Vancouver: UBC Press.
127. Hertz, Robert. 1960. A contribution to the study of the collective representation of death. In Death and the Right Hand, 27-86. New York: Free Press.
128. Het Vrije Volk. 1973. Officier van Justitie: ‘Verwacht niet te veel van euthanasieproces’ [District Attorney: ‘Do not expect too much from the euthanasia trial’], 16 Jan.
129. Hobbes, Thomas. 1839 [1629]. Thucydides. In The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, vol. 8, ed. W. Molesworth. London: Bohn, 1839-45. Available at http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/771, accessed on 10 Dec. 2007.
130. Hobbes, Thomas. 1651. Leviathan (frontispiece). London: Andrew Crooke. Retrieved from the Early English Books, 1641-1700 microfilm set, 972 reel 670:4.
131. Hobbes, Thomas. 1978 [1651]. Leviathan. Ed. C.B. MacPherson. Middlesex: Pelican.
132. Hobbes, Thomas. 1983 [1642]. De Cive: The English version entitled, in the first edition, Philosophical Rudiments Concerning Government and Society. Ed. H. Warrender. Oxford: Clarendon.
133. Hobbes, Thomas. 1990 [1889]. Behemoth or the Long Parliament. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
134. Hobbes, Thomas. 1994 [1650, 1640]. The elements of law, natural and politic, part I, Human nature, part II, De corpore politico. Ed. J.C.A. Gaskin. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
135. Huebner, Solomon. 1924. Huebner. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Convention of the National Association of Underwriters.
136. Hobbes, Thomas. 1964. Human life values: Role of life insurance. In Life and Health Insurance Handbook, ed. D. Gregg, 11-21. Homewood: Irwin.
137. Hume, David. 1894 [1777]. Essay on Suicide. London: R. Forder.
138. Humphry, Derek. 2004 [1993]. Step by Firm Step, available at, http://www.fmalexit.org/essay_step_by_step.html, accessed 26 May. Originally published as part of Derek Humphry, 1993, Lawful Exit: The Limits of Freedom for Help in Dying (Junction City: Norris Lane).
139. Hurst, Lynda. 2004. Troops in Iraq on suicide watch. Toronto Star, 11 April, F3.
140. Illich, Ivan. 1975. Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health. London: Calder and Boyars.
141. Johansson, Sheila. 2003. When numbers began to count for health policy: A review essay. Population and Development Review 29(4): 715-29.
142. Kant, Imanuel. 1949 [1785]. Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals, trans. K. Abbott. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.
143. Kemple, Thomas. 1995. Reading Marx Writing: Melodrama, the Market, and the ‘Grundrisse.’ Stanford: Stanford University Press.
144. Kemple, Thomas. 1997. SRB insight: The unrepresentable. Semiotic Review of Books 8(3): 11-12.
145. Keyserlingk, Edward. 1979. Sanctity of Life or Quality of Life in the Context of Ethics, Medicine and Law. Ottawa: Law Reform Commission of Canada.
146. Kierkegaard, Søren. 1939 [1843]. Fear and Trembling: A Dialectical Lyric by Johannes de Silentio [pseud.]. Trans. R. Payne. London: Oxford University Press.
147. Koselleck, Reinhart. 1988. Critique and Crisis: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society. Oxford: Berg.
148. Kreager, Philip. 1988. New light on Graunt. Population Studies 42: 129-40.
149. Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth. 1971. On Death and Dying. New York: Macmillan.
150. La Mettrie, Julien. 1996 [1748]. Machine-Man and Other Writings. Trans. A. Thomson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
151. Latour, Bruno. 1993. We Have Never Been Modern. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
152. Le Bras, H. 1983. Malthus and the two mortalities. In Malthus: Past and Present, ed. J. Dupaquier et al., 31-44. New York: Academic.
153. Le Play, Frederic. 1982 [1855,1864, 1870, 1871]. On Family, Work, and Social Change. Trans. and ed. C.B. Silver. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
154. Leavitt, Frank. 1996. Two more articles on euthanasia: Are we doing bioethics or thanatoethics? Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 6(4): 61-2.
155. Leenen, H.J.J. 1991. Legal aspects of euthanasia, assistance to suicide and terminating the medical treatment of incompetent patients. (Appendix.) In Euthanasia in the Netherlands, 1-18. Amsterdam: RDMA.
156. Legemaate, Johan. 2000. Twenty-five years of Dutch experience and policy on euthanasia and assisted suicide: An overview. In Euthanasia in the Netherlands, 51-9. Amsterdam: RDMA.
157. Levinas, Emanuel. 1985. Ethics and Infinity. Trans. R. Cohen. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press.
158. Levinas, Emanuel. 1991. Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence. Trans. A. Lingis. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic.
159. Levinas, Emanuel. 2000. God, Death, and Time. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
160. Leviton, Daniel. 1995. Horrendous death: Linking thanatology and public health. In Awareness of Mortality, ed. J. Kauffman, 185-214. New York: Baywood.
161. Lining, John. 1742. Extracts of two letters from Dr John Lining, physician at Charles-Town in South Carolina, to James Jurin, M.D., F.R.S. giving an account of statical experiments made several times in a day upon himself, for one whole year, accompanied with meteorological observations; to which are sub-joined six general tables, deduced from the whole year’s course. Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775) 42: 491-509.
162. Lloyd, S.A. 1992. Ideals as Interests in Hobbes’ Leviathan: The Power of Mind over Matter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
163. Lobo, Francis. 1990. John Haygarth, smallpox and religious dissent in eighteenth-century England. In The Medical Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century, ed. A. Cunningham and R. French, 217-53. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
164. Lukes, Steven. 1985. Emile Durkheim, His Life and Work: A Historical and Critical Study. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
165. Lupton, Deborah. 1999. Risk. London: Routledge.
166. MacDonald, M., and T. Murphy. 1990. Sleepless Souls: Suicide in Early Modern England. Oxford: Clarendon.
167. Macpherson, C.B. 1962. The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke. Oxford: Clarendon.
168. Magnusson, Roger. 2002. Angels of Death: Exploring the Euthanasia Underground. New Haven: Yale University Press.
169. Malinowski, Bronislaw. 1976 [1926]. Crime and Custom in Savage Society. Totowa: Littlefield.
170. Malthus, Thomas R. 1992 [1803, 1978]. An Essay on the Principles of Population. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
171. Marra, Realino, and M. Orru. 1991. Social images of suicide. British Journal of Sociology 42(2): 273-88.
172. Martineau, Harriet. 1838. How to Observe Morals and Manners. London: Knight.
173. Marx, Karl. 1977a. Capital, vol 1. New York: Vintage.
174. Marx, Karl. 1977b. Capital, vol 2. New York: Vintage.
175. Marx, Karl. 1999 [1846]. Marx on Suicide. Trans. E.A. Plaut, G. Edgcomb, and K. Anderson; ed. E.A. Plaut and K. Anderson. Evanston: Northwestern University Press.
176. Marx, Karl, and Frederick Engels. 1968 [1849]. Wage labour and capital. In Selected Writings, 71-93. London: Lawrence and Wishart.
177. Masaryk, Thomas. 1970 [1881]. Suicide and the Meaning of Civilization. Ed. W. Weist and R. Batson; intro. Anthony Giddens. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
178. Maudsley, Henry. 1874. Responsibility in Mental Disease. London: Henry S. King.
179. Maugham, W. Somerset. 1933. Sheppey, a Play in Three Acts. London: Heine- mann.
180. Mauss, Marcel. 1967. The Gift. Trans. I. Cunnison. New York: Norton.
181. Mbembe, Achille. 2003. Necropolitics. Public Culture 15(1): 11-40.
182. McInerney, Fran. 2000. ‘Requested death’: Anew social movement. Social Science and Medicine 50: 137-54.
183. McNamara, Beverley. 1998. A good enough death? In Health Matters: A Sociology of Illness, Prevention, and Care, ed. A. Petersen and C. Waddell. St Leonards: Allen and Unwin.
184. Mercier, Louis-Sebastien. 1999 [1782]. Panorama of Paris: Selections from Tableau de Paris. Trans. H. Simpson and J. Popkin; ed. J. Popkin. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.
185. Metchnikoff, Elie. 1904. The Nature of Man: Studies in Optimistic Philosophy. Trans. P.C. Mitchell. London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons.
186. Mills, C. Wright. 1959. The Sociological Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press.
187. Minois, Georges. 1999. History of Suicide: Voluntary Death in Western Culture. Trans. L. Cochrane. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
188. Moi, Toril. 1985. Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory. London: Methuen.
189. Montesquieu. 1964 [1721]. Persian Letters. Trans. G. Healy. New York: Bobbs Merrill.
190. Morselli, Henry. 1881 [1879]. Suicide: An Essay on Comparative Moral Statistics. London: Kegan Paul.
191. Murray, Alexander. 1998. Suicide in the Middle Ages, vol. 2, The Curse on SelfMurder. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
192. Nef, J.U. 1963 [1950]. War and Human Progress: An Essay on the Rise of Industrial Civilization. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
193. Nemedi, Denes. 1997. Durkheim and his audience. Durkheimian Studies/Etudes durkheimiennes 3: 73-82.
194. Neustatter, Lindsey. 1953. Psychological Disorder and Crime. London: Johnson.
195. Nye, Robert. 1984. Crime, Madness, and Politics in Modern France: The Medical Concept of National Decline. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
196. Oberschall, Anthony. 1986. The two empirical roots of social theory. In Knowledge and Society: Studies in the Sociology of Culture Past and Present, vol. 6, ed. Kuklick and E.B. Long, 67-97. London: IAI Press.
197. Ogden, Russel. 1994. Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in Persons with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) or Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Pitt Meadows: Perreault Goedman.
198. O’Hara, John. 1934. Appointment in Samarra. New York: Vintage.
199. O’Malley, Pat. (ed.). 2000. Configurations of Risk: A Special Issue of Economy and Society 29(4).
200. O’Neill, John. 1972. Sociology as a Skin Trade: Essays towards a Reflexive Sociology. New York: Harper Torchbooks.
201. O’Neill, John. 2002. Incorporating Cultural Theory: Maternity at the Millennium. Albany: State University of New York Press.
202. Orentlicher, David, and Louis Snyder. 2002. Can assisted suicide be regulated? In Assisted Suicide: Finding Common Ground, ed. L. Snyder and A. Caplan, 55-69. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
203. O’Steen, David N. 2000. National Right to Life Press Release, 28 Nov. Washington, DC. Quoted in Dutch Legalize Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, Jenny Nolan, 2001, available at http://www.nrlc.org/news/2001/NRL05/dutch.html, accessed 26 May 2004.
204. Parsons, Talcott. 1937. The Structure of Social Action. New York: Free Press.
205. Parsons, Talcott, and Victor Lidz. 1967. Death in American society. In Essays in Self Destruction, ed. E. Schneidman, 133-70. New York: Science House.
206. Parsons, Talcott, R. Fox, and V. Lidz. 1999 [1972]. The ‘gift of life’ and its reciprocation. In The Talcott Parsons Reader, ed. B.S. Turner, 123-54. Malden: Blackwell.
207. Pavlov, Ivan P. 1974 [1900]. Experimental therapeutics as a new and exceedingly fruitful method of physiological investigation. Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 50(9): 1018-30.
208. Petty, William Sir. 1686. An extract of two Essays in political arithmetick concerning the comparative magnitudes, etc. of London and Paris by Sr. William Petty Knight. R.S.S. Philosophical Transactions 16: 152.
209. Petty, William Sir. 1927 [1686-1699]. The Petty Papers. Ed. T.M Landsdowne. London: Constable.
210. Petty, William Sir. 1944 [1755, 1699]. Several Essays in Political Arithmetick. 4th ed. London: D. Browne, etc.
211. Petty, William Sir. 1964 [1899, 1691]. The political anatomy of Ireland. In The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty, ed. C.H. Hull, 121-231. New York: Augustus M. Kelley.
212. Petty, William Sir. 1964 [1899, 1687]. Two essays in political arithmetick. In The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty, ed. C.H. Hull, 501-13. New York: Augustus M. Kelley.
213. Petty, William Sir. 1964 [1899, 1690]. Political arithmetick. In The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty, ed. C.H. Hull, 233-313. New York: Augustus M. Kelley.
214. Pick, Daniel. 1989. Faces of Degeneration: A European Disorder, c. 1848 -1918. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
215. Poitras, Geoffrey. 2000. The Early History of Financial Economics, 1478-1776: From Commercial Arithmetic to Life Annuities and Joint Stocks. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
216. Poovey, Mary. 1998. The History of the Modern Fact. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
217. Porter, Theodore. 1986. The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
218. Porter, Theodore. 1995. Statistical and social facts from Quetelet to Durkheim. Sociological Perspectives 38(1): 15-26.
219. Porter, Theodore. 1996. Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
220. Price, Richard. 1771. Observations on Reversionary Payments. London: Printed for T. Cadell.
221. Prichard, James C. 1835. Treatise on Insanity and Other Disorders Affecting the Mind. London: Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper.
222. Prior, Lindsay. 1989. The Social Organization of Death. New York: St Martin’s Press.
223. Quetelet, Adolph. 1973 [1842]. A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties. Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers, ed. Richard Wall. Comparative Statistics in the 19th Century. Farnborough: Cregg International.
224. Rabinow, Paul. 1996. Essays on the Anthropology of Reason. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
225. Rawls, John. 1971. A Theory of Justice. Cambridge, MA: Belknap.
226. RDMA. 1990, 1991, 2000a. Euthanasia in the Netherlands. Amsterdam: RDMA.
227. RDMA. 2000b. The Ethics of Euthanasia. In Euthanasia in the Netherlands, 7th ed, page 4. Amsterdam: RDMA.
228. Reuter, Christoph. 2004. My Life Is a Weapon: A Modern History of Suicide Bombing. Trans. H. Ragg-Kirkby. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
229. Rhodes, Rosamond. 2002. Reading Rawls and hearing Hobbes. Philosophical Forum 33(4): 393-412.
230. Right to Die Society, NL. 2004. 1973: Criminal Court Ruling, Leeuwarden: The Postma Case, the Right to Die Society, available at http://www.nvve.nl/english/Jurisprudence, accessed 26 May.
231. Riley, James. 1987. The Eighteenth Century Campaign to Avoid Disease. Hampshire: Macmillan.
232. Rogers, J. 1996. The Matter of Revolution: Science, Poetry, and Politics in the Age of Milton. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
233. Rose, Jacqueline. 2004. Deadly embrace (review essay). London Review of Books 26: 4 Nov., 21-4.
234. Rose, Nikolas. 1999. Powers of Freedom: Reframing Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
235. Rose, Nikolas. 2001. The politics of life itself. Theory, Culture and Society 18(6): 1-30.
236. Rose, Nikolas. 2006. The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
237. Rosen, George. 1974. From Medical Police to Social Medicine; Essays on the History of Health Care. New York: Science History Publications.
238. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. 1754. Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, trans. G.D.H. Cole, available at http://www.constitution.org/jjr/ineq.htm, accessed 4 Dec. 2007.
239. Rusnock, Andrea. 2002. Vital Accounts: Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
240. Schlatter, Richard. 1975. Introduction. In Hobbes’s Thucydides, ed. R. Schlatter, xi-xxviii. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
241. Schumpeter, Joseph. 1950. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. New York: Harper Torchbooks.
242. Schwitters, Rob. 2001. Slipping into normality? Some reflections on slippery slopes. In Regulating Physician-Negotiated Death, ed. M.A. Klijn and M. Otlowski. Trappenburg: Elsevier’s Gravenhage.
243. Seery, John. 1996. Political Theory for Mortals: Shades of Justice, Images of Death. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
244. Selsky, A., and J. Loven. 2006. U.S.: 3 Gitmo inmates hanged themselves. Associated Press, available at http://news.yahoo.com, accessed 10 June.
245. Sevenhuijsen, Selma. 1998. Citizenship and the Ethics of Care: Feminist Considerations on Justice, Morality and Politics. Trans. L. Savage. London: Routledge.
246. Shapin, Steven. 1996. The Scientific Revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
247. Sherwin, Susan. 1992. Feminism and medical ethics: Two different approaches to contextual ethics. In Feminist Perspectives in Medical Ethics, ed. H. Holmes and L.M. Purdy, 17-31. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
248. Shils, Edward. 1975 [1967]. The sanctity of life. In Center and Periphery: Essays in Macrosociology, 219-35. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
249. Simmel, Georg. 2007 [1910]. The metaphysics of death. Theory, Culture and Society Annual Review 23(7-8): 77-82.
250. Skinner, Quentin. 1966. Thomas Hobbes and his disciples in France and England. Comparative Studies in Society and History 8: 153-67.
251. Skolbekken, John. 1995. The risk epidemic in medical journals. Social Science and Medicine 40(3): 291-305.
252. Sleeboom, Margaret. 2003. The limits of the Dutch concept of euthanasia. Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 13(2): 20-5.
253. Smith, Dorothy. 1990. No one commits suicide: Textual analysis of ideological practices. In Conceptual Practices of Power, 141-73. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
254. Sobel, Jordan H. 1998. Puzzles for the Free Will: Fatalism, Newcomb, and Samarra. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
255. Sombart, Werner. 1953. Medieval and Modern Commercial Enterprise. In Enterprise and Secular Change, eds. F.C. Lane and J. Riemersma, 25-40. Homewood, Ill.: Irwin.
256. Spencer, Herbert. 1875 [1862]. First Principles. London: Williams and Norgate.
257. Strauss, Leo. 1936. The Political Philosophy of Hobbes, Its Basis and Its Genesis. Oxford: Clarendon.
258. Sutorius, Philip. 2004. A New Taboo (Interview) taken from Summaries of Relevant [Magazine] 2003, available at http://www.nvve.nl/english/info/summaries/summ03-2.htm#turbulent, accessed 26 May.
259. The Times. 1790. 9 April.
260. Turner, Stephen. 1989. Durkheim among the statisticians. Paper read at the American Sociological Association (accessed through Sociological Abstracts Database).
261. United Nations. 1996. Prevention of Suicide: Guidelines for the Formulation and Implementation of National Strategies. New York: United Nations.
262. Valverde, Mariana. 1998. Diseases of the Will. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
263. Van Berkestijn, T.M.G. 1990. The Royal Medical Association and the practice of euthanasia and assisted suicide. In Euthanasia in the Netherlands, 1-10. Amsterdam: RDMA.
264. Van der Berg, Jan H. 1978 [1969]. Medical Power and Medical Ethics. New York: Norton.
265. Van der Maas, Paul, and Linda Emanuel. 1998. Factual findings. In Regulating How We Die: The Ethical, Medical, and Legal Issues Surrounding Physician- Assisted Suicide, ed. L. Emanuel, 151-74. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
266. Van Gennep, Arnold. 1960. The Rites of Passage. London: Routledge and Paul.
267. Van Hooff, Anton. 1990. From Autothanasia to Suicide: Self-Killing in Classical Antiquity. London: Routledge.
268. Van Krieken, Robert. 2002. The paradox of the ‘two sociologies’: Hobbes, Latour and the constitution of modern social theory. Journal of Sociology 38: 255-73.
269. Walter, Tony, et al. 1995. Death in the news: The public invigilation of private emotion. Sociology 29(4): 579-96.
270. Warren, Virginia. 1992. Feminist directions in medical ethics. In Feminist Perspectives in Medical Ethics, ed. H. Holmes and L.M. Purdy, 32-45. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
271. Weber, Max. 1958 [1919]. From Max Weber, trans. and ed. H.H. Gerth and C.W. Mills. New York: Oxford University Press.
272. Weber, Max. 1964. The Theory of Social and Economic Organization. New York: Free Press.
273. Weber, Max. 1978. Economy and law. In Economy and Society, vol. 2, ed. G. Roth and C. Wittich, 641-900. Berkeley: University of California Press.
274. Weber, Max. 1981 [1927]. General Economic History. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction.
275. Weber, Max. 1993. The Sociology of Religion. Boston: Beacon Press.
276. Weber, Max. 2004 [1919]. The vocation of science. In The Essential Weber: A Reader, ed. S. Whimster, 270-87. London: Routledge.
277. Wescott, William. 1885. Suicide: Its History, Literature, Jurisprudence, Causation, and Prevention. London: H.K. Lewis.
278. Westermarck, Edward. 1917. The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas. London: Macmillan.
279. Wijsbek, Henry. 2001. Taking Lives Seriously: Philosophical Issues in the Dutch Euthanasia Debate. Doctoral Dissertation Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
280. Williams, Glanville. 1957. The Sanctity of Life and the Criminal Law. New York: Alfred Knopf.
281. Wolin, Sheldon. 1960. Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought. Boston: Little Brown.
282. Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks. 1603. A Generall bill for 8 weeks shewing all the burials and christninges within the city of London and the liberties thereof and of all the burials in other parishes in the skirts of the city… from the 14. of July, 1603, to the 8. day of September, 1603…. Retrieved from the Goldsmiths’- Kress microfilm collection, 5346 N. 316.
283. Zaritsky, John. 1994. An Appointment with Death (video documentary). Toronto.
284. Zelizer, Viviana. 1979. Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the United States. New York: Columbia University Press.
285. Zelizer, Viviana. 1985. Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children. New York: Basic Books.