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Reframing Rights : Bioconstitutionalism in the Genetic Age.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Basic Bioethics SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (321 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262298667
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reframing RightsDDC classification:
  • 174/.957
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Rewriting Life, Reframing Rights -- 2 States of Eugenics: Institutions and Practices of Compulsory Sterilization in California -- 3 Making the Facts of Life -- 4 More than Just a Nucleus: Cloning and the Alignment of Scientific and Political Rationalities -- 5 Between Church and State: Stem Cells, Embryos, and Citizens in Italian Politics -- 6 Certainty vs. Finality: Constitutional Rights to Postconviction DNA Testing -- 7 Judicial Imaginaries of Technology: Constitutional Law and the Forensic DNA Databases -- 8 Risks and Rights in Xenotransplantation -- 9 Two Tales of Genomics: Capital, Epistemology, and Global Constitutions of the Biomedical Subject -- 10 Human Population Genomics and the Dilemma of Difference -- 11 Despotism and Democracy in the United Kingdom: Experiments in Reframing Citizenship -- 12 Representing Europe with the Precautionary Principle -- 13 Conclusion -- Series Page -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: Investigations into the interplay of biological and legal conceptions of life, from government policies on cloning to DNA profiling by law enforcement.
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Cover -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Rewriting Life, Reframing Rights -- 2 States of Eugenics: Institutions and Practices of Compulsory Sterilization in California -- 3 Making the Facts of Life -- 4 More than Just a Nucleus: Cloning and the Alignment of Scientific and Political Rationalities -- 5 Between Church and State: Stem Cells, Embryos, and Citizens in Italian Politics -- 6 Certainty vs. Finality: Constitutional Rights to Postconviction DNA Testing -- 7 Judicial Imaginaries of Technology: Constitutional Law and the Forensic DNA Databases -- 8 Risks and Rights in Xenotransplantation -- 9 Two Tales of Genomics: Capital, Epistemology, and Global Constitutions of the Biomedical Subject -- 10 Human Population Genomics and the Dilemma of Difference -- 11 Despotism and Democracy in the United Kingdom: Experiments in Reframing Citizenship -- 12 Representing Europe with the Precautionary Principle -- 13 Conclusion -- Series Page -- Contributors -- Index.

Investigations into the interplay of biological and legal conceptions of life, from government policies on cloning to DNA profiling by law enforcement.

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