Editors:
- Seeks to understand the shifting meaning of personhood in light of recent biotechnological developments
- Outlines the stakes involved in our development and understanding of modern personhood
- Attempts to theorize alternative understandings of personhood from a legal perspective
Part of the book series: Biolegalities (BIOGA)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Troubling Persons
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Front Matter
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The Future of Persons
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Back Matter
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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Law, University of New South Wales Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Marc de Leeuw
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Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Sonja van Wichelen
About the editors
Marc de Leeuw is Senior Lecturer at the Law School of the University of New South Wales, Australia, and convener of the UNSW Law Initiative for Biolegalities (IBL). His book Homo Capax. Paul Ricoeur’s Renewal of Philosophical Anthropology is forthcoming.
Sonja van Wichelen is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Sydney, Australia, and Director of the Biopolitics of Science Research Network. She is the author of Legitimating Life: Adoption in the Age of Globalization and Biotechnology (2018) and Religion, Gender and Politics in Indonesia: Disputing the Muslim Body (2010).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Personhood in the Age of Biolegality
Book Subtitle: Brave New Law
Editors: Marc de Leeuw, Sonja van Wichelen
Series Title: Biolegalities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27848-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27847-2Published: 27 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27850-2Published: 27 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-27848-9Published: 18 November 2019
Series ISSN: 3005-0227
Series E-ISSN: 3005-0235
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 261
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Science and Technology Studies, Socio-legal Studies, Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History