Overview
- The only book so far that offers an epistemological and methodological configuration for the discipline of biolaw
- The first book to cover the birth, history and conceptual dimensions of biolaw
- With a preface by Peter Singer
Part of the book series: The International Library of Bioethics (ILB, volume 87)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- American and European Biolaw
- The Belmont Report
- Biomedical Ethics and Principlism
- Biolaw and Principlism
- Evolution of Biolaw
- Bioethics and Human Rights
- Main Concepts of Biolaw
- Principles of Biolaw
- Biolaw and the Environment
- The Constitutionalization of Biolaw
- Legal Argumentation in Biomedical Ethics
About this book
This book configures a consistent epistemology of biolaw that distinguishes itself from bioethics and from a mere set of international instruments on the regulation of biomedical practices. Such orthodox intellection has prevented biolaw from being understood as a new branch of law with legally binding force, which has certainly dwindled its epistemological density. Hence, this is a revolutionary book as it seeks to deconstruct the history of biolaw and its oblique epistemologies, which means not accepting perennial axioms, and not seeing paradigms where only anachronism and anomaly still exist. It is a book aimed at validity, but also at solidity because the truth of biolaw has never been told before. In that sense, it is also a revealing text. The book shapes biolaw as an independent and compelling branch of law, with a legally binding scope, which boosts the effectiveness of new deliberative models for legal sciences, as well as it utterly reinforces hermeneutical and epistemological approaches, in tune with the complexity of disturbing legal scenarios created by biomedical sciences’ latest applications. This work adeptly addresses the origins of the European biolaw and its connections with American bioethics. It also analyses different biolaw’s epistemologies historically developed both in Europe and in the United States, to finally offer a new conception of biolaw as a new branch of law, by exploring its theoretical and practical atmospheres to avoid muddle and uncertainty when applied in biomedical settings. This book is suitable for academics and students of biolaw, law, bioethics, and biomedical research, as well as for professionals in higher education institutions, courts, the biomedical industry, and pharmacological companies.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biolaw: Origins, Doctrine and Juridical Applications on the Biosciences
Authors: Erick Valdés
Series Title: The International Library of Bioethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71823-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71822-0Published: 28 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71825-1Published: 29 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-71823-7Published: 27 March 2021
Series ISSN: 2662-9186
Series E-ISSN: 2662-9194
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 234
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Bioethics, Medical Law, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary