Braverman Gene Editing, Law, and the Environment

Life Beyond the Human
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-68589-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 214 Seiten

Reihe: Law, Science and Society

Technologies like CRISPR and gene drives are ushering in a new era of genetic engineering, wherein the technical means to modify DNA are cheaper, faster, more accurate, more widely accessible, and with more far-reaching effects than ever before. These cutting-edge technologies raise legal, ethical, cultural, and ecological questions that are so broad and consequential for both human and other-than-human life that they can be difficult to grasp. What is clear, however, is that the power to directly alter not just a singular form of life but also the genetics of entire species and thus the composition of ecosystems is currently both inadequately regulated and undertheorized. In Gene Editing, Law, and the Environment, distinguished scholars from law, the life sciences, philosophy, environmental studies, science and technology studies, animal health, and religious studies examine what is at stake with these new biotechnologies for life and law, both human and beyond.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Braverman, Irus

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Schul-, Hochschul- und Prüfungsrecht, Wissenschaftsrecht, Forschung
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Umweltrecht Umweltrecht allg., Technikrecht, Immissionsschutzrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Editing the Environment: Emerging Issues in Genetics and the Law 1. Rules for Sculpting Ecosystems: Gene Drives and Responsive Science 2. Gene Drives and Species Conservation: An Ethical Analysis 4. Laws of Containment: Control Without Limits in the New Biology 5. Vigilante Environmentalism: Are Gene Drives Changing How We Value and Govern Ecosystems? 6. Controlling Our "Nature": Gene Editing in Law and in the Arts 7. Sex, Lies, and Genetic Engineering: Why We Must (But Won’t) Ban Human Embryo Modification 8. A "One Health" Approach to Gene Editing in the Domestic Dog 9. Digital Enchantment: Life and the Future of Gene Editing Afterword: Governing Gene Editing: A Constitutional Conversation

Über Autor(innen)

Irus Braverman is Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Geography at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. She is author of Planted Flags: Trees, Land, and Law in Israel Palestine (2009), Zooland: The Institution of Captivity (2012), and Wild Life: The Institution of Nature (2015), and co-editor of The Expanding Spaces of Law: A Timely Legal Geography (2014) and Animals, Biopolitics, Law: Lively Legalities (2016).