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9781444361520

Material Worlds Intersections of Law, Science, Technology, and Society

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  • ISBN13:

    9781444361520

  • ISBN10:

    144436152X

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2012-03-19
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Summary

A study of the existing and future research on the intersections between law and materiality, leading to the illumination of both. A theoretically innovative book exploring the intersections between law and materiality Offers new perspectives on a variety of high profile controversial subjects, including climate change, public health, genetics, crime, biomedical technology Investigates the futures of both the sociology of law and the study of science and technology from a novel, interdisciplinary vantage point Illustrates a wide range of empirical topics to provide a focus for critical reflection on the nature of cross-disciplinary research Illuminates relationships between transnational regulation and local practices and the relation between social agency and material worlds

Author Biography

Alex Faulkner is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Political Economy, King's College London

Table of Contents

Introduction: Material Worlds: Intersections of Law, Science, Technology, and Societyp. 1
The Pragmatic Sanction of Materials: Notes for an Ethnography of Legal Substancesp. 20
The Regulation of Nicotine in the United Kingdom: How Nicotine Gum Came to Be a Medicine, but Not a Drugp. 39
The Donor-conceived Child's 'Right to Personal Identity': The Public Debate on Donor Anonymity in the United Kingdomp. 58
A Socio-legal Analysis of an Actor-world: The Case of Carbon Trading and the Clean Development Mechanismp. 76
Nanotechnology and the Products of Inherited Regulationp. 93
The Emergence of Biobanks in the Legal Landscape: Towards a New Model of Governancep. 113
The Legal Landscape for Advanced Therapies: Material and Institutional Implementation of European Union Rules in France and the United Kingdomp. 131
Bodies of Science and Law: Forensic DNA Profiling, Biological Bodies, and Biopowerp. 150
The Materiality of What?p. 167
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