Article ID: CBB181652030

The Human, Human Rights, and DNA Identity Tests (January 2018)

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Vaisman, Noa (Author)


Science, Technology and Human Values
Volume: 43
Issue: 1
Pages: 3-20


Publication Date: January 2018
Edition Details: Special Issue: New Technologies, Developments in the Biosciences and the New Frontiers of Human Rights
Language: English

This special issue examines the diverse realities created by the intersection of emerging technologies, new scientific knowledge, and the human being. It engages with two key questions: how is the human being shaped and constructed in new ways through advances in science and technology? and how might these new ways of imagining the subject shape present and future human rights law and practice? The papers examine a variety of scientific technologies—personalized medicine and organ transplant, mitochondrial DNA replacement, and scaffolds and regenerative medicine—and their implications for our conceptualization of the human subject. Each is then followed by a commentary that both brings to light new dimensions of the original paper and presents a new theoretical take on the topic. Together these papers offer a serious challenge to the vision of the human subject at the root of human rights law. Instead of the autonomous, rational, unique, and physically discrete individual who owns herself and her body, the subject that emerges from the human technology assemblage has physically porous boundaries and a relational self. This depiction of the human being as a relational subject enmeshed in her technoscientific environment requires that we reconceptualize human rights law and practice.

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Includes Series Articles

Article Ilke Turkmendag (January 2018) It Is Just a “Battery”: “Right” to Know in Mitochondrial Replacement. Science, Technology and Human Values (pp. 56-85). unapi

Article Bronwyn Parry (January 2018) The Social Life of “Scaffolds” Examining Human Rights in Regenerative Medicine. Science, Technology and Human Values (pp. 95-120). unapi

Article Michael Fisch (January 2018) Regenerating Bodies. Science, Technology and Human Values (pp. 121-128). unapi

Article Barbara Prainsack (January 2018) The “We” in the “Me”: Solidarity and Health Care in the Era of Personalized Medicine. Science, Technology and Human Values (pp. 21-44). unapi

Article Benedict Douglas (January 2018) The mtDNA of Human Rights. Science, Technology and Human Values (pp. 86-94). unapi

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Article Anna Grear (January 2018) Human Rights and New Horizons? Thoughts toward a New Juridical Ontology. Science, Technology and Human Values (pp. 129-145). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Yi, Doogab
Smith, Lindsay Adams
Benedict Douglas
Godderis, Andreas
Lawless, Christopher J.
Andoh, Chris
Concepts
DNA; RNA
Human rights
Biotechnology
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Law and legislation
Genetic engineering
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
Modern
20th century
Early modern
Medieval
Places
Argentina
United States
Europe
Great Britain
San Francisco (California)
Indonesia
Institutions
Stanford University
Science for the People (SftP)
Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA Molecules (1975)
Harvard University
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