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Vulnerability and Human Rights / Bryan S. Turner.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Essays on Human Rights ; 1Publisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (160 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780271030449
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323.01 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Crimes Against Humanity -- 2 Vulnerability and Suffering -- 3 Cultural Rights and Critical Recognition Theory -- 4 Reproductive and Sexual Rights -- 5 Rights of Impairment and Disability -- 6 Rights of the Body -- 7 Old and New Xenophobia -- References -- Index
Summary: The mass violence of the twentieth century's two world wars-followed more recently by decentralized and privatized warfare, manifested in terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and other localized forms of killing-has led to a heightened awareness of human beings' vulnerability and the precarious nature of the institutions they create to protect themselves from violence and exploitation. This vulnerability, something humans share amid the diversity of cultural beliefs and values that mark their differences, provides solid ground on which to construct a framework of human rights.Bryan Turner undertakes this task here, developing a sociology of rights from a sociology of the human body. His blending of empirical research with normative analysis constitutes an important step forward for the discipline of sociology. Like anthropology, sociology has traditionally eschewed the study of justice as beyond the limits of a discipline that pays homage to cultural relativism and the "value neutrality" of positivistic science. Turner's expanded approach accordingly involves a truly interdisciplinary dialogue with the literature of economics, law, medicine, philosophy, political science, and religion.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Crimes Against Humanity -- 2 Vulnerability and Suffering -- 3 Cultural Rights and Critical Recognition Theory -- 4 Reproductive and Sexual Rights -- 5 Rights of Impairment and Disability -- 6 Rights of the Body -- 7 Old and New Xenophobia -- References -- Index

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The mass violence of the twentieth century's two world wars-followed more recently by decentralized and privatized warfare, manifested in terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and other localized forms of killing-has led to a heightened awareness of human beings' vulnerability and the precarious nature of the institutions they create to protect themselves from violence and exploitation. This vulnerability, something humans share amid the diversity of cultural beliefs and values that mark their differences, provides solid ground on which to construct a framework of human rights.Bryan Turner undertakes this task here, developing a sociology of rights from a sociology of the human body. His blending of empirical research with normative analysis constitutes an important step forward for the discipline of sociology. Like anthropology, sociology has traditionally eschewed the study of justice as beyond the limits of a discipline that pays homage to cultural relativism and the "value neutrality" of positivistic science. Turner's expanded approach accordingly involves a truly interdisciplinary dialogue with the literature of economics, law, medicine, philosophy, political science, and religion.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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