Personhood in the Age of Biolegality : Brave New Law /: Brave New Law. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Marc de Leeuw, Sonja van Wichelen.
• Editors: de Leeuw, Marc; van Wichelen, Sonja
• Contents: AcknowledgementsChapter 1. Brave New Law: Personhood in the Age of Biolegality PART I – TROUBLING PERSONSChapter 2. Spectral Personas: Exploring the Constitution and Legal Standing of 'Virtual Personhood'.Chapter 3. The Political Economy of Neurolaw: Can Neurolaw Destabilize the Neoliberal Discourse about Personal Responsibility?Chapter 4. Legal Personhood in Postgenomic Times: Plasticity, Rights, and RelationalityPART II – EVIDENCING PERSONSChapter 5. 'The Proof is in my Chromosomes': Translating Radiation Exposure into Legal Liability and State Culpability.Chapter 6. Narrative Epistemology in Jurisprudence and Elective Affinities in Productions of Responsibility for Persons in PainChapter 7. Racial Futurity: Biolegality and the Question of Black Life PART III – GOVERNING PERSONSChapter 8. Evident Genomes: Phenotypic Personhood and the Epigenetic Processing of AsylumChapter 9. CRISPR Cowboys? Genetic Self-Experimentation and the Limits of the PersonChapter 10. In Genes We Trust: Genetic Privacy in the Age of Precision MedicinePART IV – THE FUTURE OF PERSONSChapter 11.'The Obsolescence of Human Beings' and the Future of Law's Natural Persons: Transformations of Legal Personhood Through the Lens of 'Promethean ShameChapter 12. Distributed Cognition, Distributed Persons, and the Foundations of LawChapter 13. Legal Personality in Trusts and CorporationsChapter 14. Afterword: After the Great Undoing.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (261 pages)
• Subjects: Social sciences; Law and the social sciences; Biomedical engineering; Law; Social Science -- Criminology; Medical -- Allied Health Services -- Medical Technology; Law -- Reference; Law & society; Biomedical engineering; Jurisprudence & philosophy of law; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Sociology; Technology--Sociological aspects; Law--Philosophy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030278489
• Related ISBNs: 9783030278472
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