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Personhood in the Age of Biolegality, 1st ed. 2020
Brave New Law
Biolegalities Series
Language: EnglishSubjects for Personhood in the Age of Biolegality:
Publication date: 11-2020
261 p. · 14.8x21 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 11-2019
Support: Print on demand
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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).
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