Reframing rights : bioconstitutionalism in the genetic age / edited by Sheila Jasanoff.

Legal texts have been with us since the dawn of human history. Beginning in 1953, life too became textual. The discovery of the structure of DNA made it possible to represent the basic matter of life with permutations and combinations of four letters of the alphabet, A, T, C, and G. Since then, the...

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Other Authors: Jasanoff, Sheila (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2011.
Series:Basic bioethics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: rewriting life, reframing rights / Sheila Jasanoff
  • States of eugenics: institutions and practices of compulsory sterilization in California / Alex Wellerstein
  • Making the facts of life / Sheila Jasanoff
  • More than just a nucleus: cloning and the alignment of scientific and political rationalities / Giuseppe Testa
  • Between church and state: stem cells, embryos, and citizens in Italian politics / Ingrid Metzler
  • Certainty vs. finality: constitutional rights to postconviction DNA testing / Jay D. Aronson
  • Judicial imaginaries of technology: constitutional law and the forensic DNA databases / David E. Winickoff
  • Risks and rights in xenotransplantation / Mariachiara Tallacchini
  • Two tales of genomics: capital, epistemology, and global constitutions of the biomedical subject / Kaushik Sunder Rajan
  • Human population genomics and the dilemma of difference / Jenny Reardon
  • Despotism and democracy in the United Kingdom: experiments in reframing citizenship / Robert Doubleday and Brian Wynne
  • Representing Europe with the precautionary principle / Jim Dratwa.