Gene Editing, Law, and the Environment

Life Beyond the Human

Buch | Hardcover

214 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-05112-6 (ISBN)

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This book considers the existing scientific, legal, and political regulatory regimes that pertain to gene editing. By exploring such a range of potential applications of gene editing – not only biomedical, but also agricultural and ecological – the book reveals numerous crossovers and disjunctions between approaches to the human and the nonhuman.

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.

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).

Introduction

Editing the Environment: Emerging Issues in Genetics and the Law

IRUS BRAVERMAN

PART I Conserving Nature, Driving Evolution

1 Rules for Sculpting Ecosystems: Gene Drives and Responsive Science

KEVIN M. ESVELT

2 Gene Drives and Species Conservation: An Ethical Analysis

RONALD SANDLER

3 Gene Drives, Nature, Governance: An Ethnographic Perspective

IRUS BRAVERMAN

PART II Technologies of Governance

4 Laws of Containment: Control Without Limits in the New Biology

J. BENJAMIN HURLBUT

5 Vigilante Environmentalism: Are Gene Drives Changing How We Value and Govern Ecosystems?

TODD KUIKEN

6 Controlling Our "Nature": Gene Editing in Law and in the Arts

LORI ANDREWS

PART III Human-Nonhuman Boundaries, Worked and Reworked

7 Sex, Lies, and Genetic Engineering: Why We Must (But Won’t) Ban Human Embryo Modification

STUART A. NEWMAN

8 Domestic Dogs, Gene Repair, and the "One Health" Approach

ALEXANDER J. TRAVIS

9 Digital Enchantment: Life and the Future of Gene Editing

GAYMON BENNETT

Afterword

Governing Gene Editing: A Constitutional Conversation

STEPHEN HILGARTNER

Erscheinungsdatum	12.08.2017
Reihe/Serie	Law, Science and Society
Zusatzinfo	1 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Halftones, black and white; 12 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	430 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
	Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-138-05112-8 / 1138051128
ISBN-13	978-1-138-05112-6 / 9781138051126
Zustand	Neuware