Reframing Rights: Bioconstitutionalism in the Genetic Age

Book Overview

Investigations into the interplay of biological and legal conceptions of life, from government policies on cloning to DNA profiling by law enforcement.

Legal texts have been with us since the dawn of human history. Beginning in 1953, life too became textual. The discovery of the structure of DNA made it possible to represent the basic matter of life with permutations and combinations of four letters of the alphabet, A, T, C, and G...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262516276
• ISBN13: 9780262516273
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher