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Symbolic Legislation Theory and Developments in Biolaw
Bart van Klink (Hrsg.), Lonneke Poort (Hrsg.), Britta van Beers (Hrsg.)
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Springer International Publishing 
Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft / Allgemeines, Lexika
Beschreibung
This edited volume covers new ground by bringing together perspectives from symbolic legislation theory on the one hand, and from biolaw and bioethics on the other hand.
Symbolic legislation has a bad name. It usually refers to instances of legislation which are ineffective and that serve other political and social goals than the goals officially stated. Recently, a more positive notion of symbolic legislation has emerged in legislative theory. From this perspective, symbolic legislation is regarded as a positive alternative to the more traditional, top-down legislative approach. The legislature no longer merely issues commands backed up with severe sanctions, as in instrumental legislation. Instead, lawmakers provide open and aspirational norms that are meant to change behavior not by means of threat, but indirectly, through debate and social interaction.
Since the 1990s, biomedical developments have revived discussions on symbolic legislation. One of the reasons isthat biomedical legislation touches on deep-rooted, symbolic-cultural representations of the biological aspects of human life. Moreover, as it is often impossible to reach consensus on these controversial questions, legislators have sought alternative ways to develop legal frameworks. Consequently, communicative and interactive approaches to legislation are prominent within the governance of medical biotechnology.
The symbolic dimensions of biolaw are often overlooked. Yet, it is clear that the symbolic is at the heart of many legal-political debates on bioethical questions. Since the rise of biomedical technologies, human body materials have acquired a scientific, medical and even commercial value. These new approaches, which radically question existing legal symbolizations of the human body, raise the question whether and how the law should continue to reflect symbolic values and meanings. Moreover, how can we decide what these symbolic values are, given the fact that we live in a pluralistic society?
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Interactionist legislative strategies, Symbolic aspirations and effects of bio-ethical legislation, Symbolic Dimensions of Biolaw, Biological aspects of human life, Experts in Symbolic Legislation, The Human Body in Law, Regulating Biolaw from a Symbolic Perspective, Legal debate and open-endedness of legal norm development, Developments in the field of biolaw, Symbolic Function of Law in Bioethical Matters, Symbolic dimension of biolaw on a European level, Symbolic Function of Ethics Committees, Concept of Symbolic Legislation, Symbolic Legislation and Authority, Symbolic Legislation and Biolaw, Symbolic Legislation and Communication, Dimensions of the Human Body, Deficit of Egg Cell Regulation, Commodification of the human body, Symbolic Quality of Law