ID - 147704307 TI - Biolegality AU - van Wichelen, Sonja AU - de Leeuw, Marc AU - SpringerLink (Online service) PY - 2024 SN - 9789819987498 9789819987481 9789819987504 9789819987511 9819987490 PB - Singapore Springer Nature Singapore :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Professional ethics. Deontology KW - Sociology KW - Law KW - Higher education KW - Pure sciences. Natural sciences KW - Social medicine KW - Engineering sciences. Technology KW - Biotechnology KW - HO (hoger onderwijs) KW - sociologie KW - technologie KW - recht KW - biotechnologie KW - bio-ethiek KW - medische ethiek KW - wetenschappen KW - Science KW - Biotechnology. KW - Bioethics. KW - Law. KW - Social medicine. KW - Science and Technology Studies. KW - Health, Medicine and Society. KW - Social aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:147704307 AB - 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. ER -