Reframing Rights : Bioconstitutionalism in the Genetic Age.
Jasanoff, Sheila.
Reframing Rights : Bioconstitutionalism in the Genetic Age. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (321 pages) - Basic Bioethics Series . - Basic Bioethics Series .
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.
9780262298667
Genetics.
Bioethics.
Human genetics -- Social aspects.
Genetic engineering -- Political aspects.
Electronic books.
174/.957
Reframing Rights : Bioconstitutionalism in the Genetic Age. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (321 pages) - Basic Bioethics Series . - Basic Bioethics Series .
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.
9780262298667
Genetics.
Bioethics.
Human genetics -- Social aspects.
Genetic engineering -- Political aspects.
Electronic books.
174/.957