期刊全称 | Biolegality | 期刊简称 | A Critical Introduct | 影响因子2023 | Sonja van Wichelen,Marc de Leeuw | 视频video | | 发行地址 | Brings a critical introduction to philosophical and anthropological issues at the intersection of law and biology.Offers biolegality as a conceptual and methodological toolkit to study biolegal knowle | 学科分类 | Biolegalities | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | .This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the empirical and theoretical problems posed by the encounter between law and biology in the twenty-first century. How does biotechnology and new bioscientific knowledge affect our legal institutions, our sense of justice, and our ways of relating to one another? To answer these questions, authors Marc de Leeuw and Sonja van Wichelen examine the complex and often contested ways in which biotechnology and biological knowledge are reworked by, with, and against legal knowledge. As this book shows, recent developments in the life sciences—including molecular biology, immunology, and the neurosciences—and their applications in forensics, medicine, and agriculture test longstanding legal forms, such as property, personhood, parenthood, and (collective) identity, ultimately constituting the current field of “biolegality.” The authors argue that these biolegal contestations represent philosophical and anthropological challenges to existing understandings of exchange, self, kinship, and community. By addressing how biology and law inform new ways of relating and knowing, the book proposes a programmatic intervention, asserting the pivotal rol | Pindex | Book 2024 |
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