Reframing rights : bioconstitutionalism in the genetic age / edited by Sheila Jasanoff.

Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, [2011], ©2011.

x, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Introduction: rewriting life, reframing rights / Sheila Jasanoff -- States of eugenics: institutions and practices of compulsory sterilization in California / Alex Wellerstein -- Making the facts of life / Sheila Jasanoff -- More than just a nucleus: cloning and the alignment of scientific and political rationalities / Giuseppe Testa -- Between church and state: stem cells, embryos, and citizens in Italian politics / Ingrid Metzler -- Certainty vs. finality: constitutional rights to postconviction DNA testing / Jay D. Aronson -- Judicial imaginaries of technology: constitutional law and the forensic DNA databases / David E. Winickoff -- Risks and rights in xenotransplantation / Mariachiara Tallacchini -- Two tales of genomics: capital, epistemology, and global constitutions of the biomedical subject / Kaushik Sunder Rajan -- Human population genomics and the dilemma of difference / Jenny Reardon -- Despotism and democracy in the United Kingdom: experiments in reframing citizenship / Robert Doubleday and Brian Wynne -- Representing Europe with the precautionary principle / Jim Dratwa.

Includes bibliographical references and index.