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

Other author Jasanoff, Sheila.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.
Description1 online resource (x, 310 pages)
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Subjects

SeriesBasic bioethics
Basic bioethics. ^A459921
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionDescription based on print version record.
Issued in other formPrint version: Reframing rights. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011 9780262015950
Genre/formElectronic books.
ISBN9780262298667 (electronic bk.)
ISBN026229866X (electronic bk.)

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