A Critical Introduction van Wichelen, Sonja. creator author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut de Leeuw, Marc. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut SpringerLink (Online service) text si 2024 1st ed. 2024. monographic eng

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access XX, 249 p. 1 illus. online resource. 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 role the study of biolegality plays in advancing social and political theory. Introduction: Biolegality as Critical Intervention -- Part I: Law and Life -- From Nature to Biology -- The Biotechnology Revolution -- Part II: Biolegal Rearrangement -- Genes - Exchange and Property -- Brains - Self and Personhood -- Babies – Kinship and Parenthood -- Bodies - Community and Identity -- Coda: The Biolegality of Viruses. . by Sonja van Wichelen, Marc de Leeuw. Science Social aspects Biotechnology Bioethics Law Social medicine Science and Technology Studies Biotechnology Bioethics Law Health, Medicine and Society Q175.4-.55 9789819987498 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8749-8 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8749-8 240626 20251030112335.0 978-981-99-8749-8