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Oct 31, 2022 · Various norms pre- and proscribe conduct with bodies, ranging from inflicting physical harm to consent and rules about various medical procedures. The body has been, and still is, a site of contestation, of political struggles, and civil rights litigation.
Jan 1, 2017 · The study of law and biology combines six theories: it is, at once, a theory of individual behaviour, of ethology, of history, of communications, of games, and of philosophy and morals.
- William H. Rodgers
It is underpinned by many disciplines including engineering, medicine, biology, physiology, pharmacology and chemistry, computing, mathematics and physics. In addition, it draws upon and often contributes to bioinformatics, mathematical biology and the ‘‘omic’’ sciences’ (Ref. 6, p. 8).
Nov 23, 2012 · The theory blends legal theory, the neuroscience of empathy, and biosemiotics, a branch of semiotics that combines semiotics with theoretical biology. Our theory posits that this symbolism of the body is not solely a metaphor or semiotic sign of how law is cognitively structured in the mind.
- Gail Bruner Murrow, Richard W. Murrow
- 2013
Jun 21, 2007 · The legal rights of researchers who develop intellectual property and biological products from excised human tissue can be adequately protected by existing common law principles without the need for a new legal principle that people own body parts and tissue removed from their bodies.
- Loane Skene
- l.skene@unimelb.edu.au
- 2007
Jan 22, 2023 · I claim that there are laws in biology. In particular, there are laws in evolutionary theory. And, there are also genuinely biological laws throughout the discipline from cellular dynamics, to normal growth and development, and on to animal and even plant behavior.
May 15, 2011 · In A Biological Theory of Law, Hendrik Gommer (2011) argued that the law is grounded in biological mechanisms to serve survival and reproduction. The behavior of each organism...
