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Gene Editing, Law, and the Environment: Life Beyond the Human

Gene Editing, Law, and the Environment: Life Beyond the Human

Author: Irus Braverman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138051126

Published In: July 2017
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Paperback Edition ISBN: 9780367138462

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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.

Introduction

Editing the Environment: Emerging Issues in Genetics and the Law

IRUS BRAVERMAN

PART I Conserving Nature, Driving Evolution

Rules for Sculpting Ecosystems: Gene Drives and Responsive Science

KEVIN M. ESVELT

Gene Drives and Species Conservation: An Ethical Analysis

RONALD SANDLER

Gene Drives, Nature, Governance: An Ethnographic Perspective

IRUS BRAVERMAN

PART II Technologies of Governance

Laws of Containment: Control Without Limits in the New Biology