Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Vanderbilt Law Review

Abstract

Our focus is on the impact of genetic research on traditional legal concepts. Genetics has profoundly altered the perception of personhood within our culture. This change has, in turn, challenged many of the core principles on which current norms are based and has compelled lawmakers to reconsider the legal rules that mediate the relationships among persons and between individuals and the broader community. Thus, we see this research as influencing not only the factual answers available to the decisionmaking process, but also the questions that are framed and the terms that are used in the debate.

First Page

313

Volume

45

Publication Date

1992

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