Reframing Rights: Bioconstitutionalism in the Genetic Age

List of Contributors

Contributors Jay D. Aronson is Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Carnegie Mellon University. His research and teaching focus on the interactions of science, technology, law, and human rights in a variety of contexts. His first book, Genetic Witness: Science, Law, and Controversy in the Making of DNA Profiling (Rutgers University Press, 2007), examines the development of forensic DNA analysis in the American legal system. He is currently engaged in a long-term study of the ethical, political, and social dimensions of postconflict and postdisaster DNA identification of the missing and disappeared. He received his PhD in History of Science and Technology from the University of Minnesota and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Robert Doubleday is Senior Research Associate in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge. His recent research, funded by the Wellcome Trust, explores how academic scientists working on nanotechnologies understand and respond to the political and policy contexts in which they work. Previously he spent a year as a policy fellow at the UK Government Office for Science; two years as a “lab-based social scientist” at the University of Cambridge Nanoscience Centre; and one year on a Fulbright Scholarship at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Jim Dratwa’s research and publications address issues of transnational expertise, legitimacy, and governance, probing the interfaces between science, citizenship, and policy making through ethnographic inquiries into international organizations . For the last ten years, he has combined academic and policymaking activities. He has taught at the École des Mines de Paris, Harvard University, the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and the Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis, Brussels, where he is currently Professor of Political Science. He is also a civil servant with the European Commission, at the department for research policy, in the team working on policy analysis and prospective analysis. Sheila Jasanoff is Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies (STS) at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. She has authored more than 100 articles and book chapters and is author or editor of a dozen books, including The Fifth Branch (Harvard University Press, 1990), Science at the Bar (Harvard University Press, 1995), and Designs on Nature (Princeton University Press, 2005). Her work uses innovative methods of cross-national comparison and 300 Contributors legal analysis to illuminate the role of science and technology in constructing norms of evidence, persuasion, and public reason in modern democracies. She was founding chair of the STS Department at Cornell University and has held distinguished visiting appointments at numerous American and European academic institutions. She holds AB, PhD, and JD degrees from Harvard. Ingrid Metzler is a researcher at the Life-Science-Governance Research Platform at the University of Vienna. She has studied political science at the University of Rome, La Sapienza, the University of Innsbruck, and the University of Vienna. In 2005, she was a Marie Curie fellow at the Science and Technology Studies Unit at the Department of Sociology of the University of York. Her research focuses on the framing of issues at the intersection of science, technology, and politics. Jenny Reardon is Associate Professor of Sociology and Faculty Affiliate in the Center for Biomolecular Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research investigates how novel forms of technoscience (such as genomics and nanotechnology) are constituted along with novel forms of governance and modes of constructing human identity. She is a primary organizer of the Science and Justice Working Group at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her first book, Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics, was published with Princeton University Press in 2005. She is currently working on a second book manuscript entitled The Post-Genomic Condition: Technoscience at the Limits of Liberal Democratic Imaginaries. Kaushik Sunder Rajan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life (Duke University Press, 2006) and the editor of Lively Capital: Biotechnologies, Ethics and Governance in Global Markets (Duke University Press, 2011). His work explores the relationships between the life sciences and global capital, with a specific empirical focus on the United States and India. He is currently working on a number of projects relating to aspects of pharmaceutical development in the Indian context, such as global clinical trials, intellectual property regimes, and translational research. Mariachiara Tallacchini is Professor of Legal...