1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462062403321

Autore

Farrell Anne-Maree <1964->

Titolo

The politics of blood : ethics, innovation, and the regulation of risk / / Anne-Maree Farrell [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012

ISBN

1-139-41099-7

1-107-22322-9

1-280-68282-5

1-139-41303-1

9786613659767

1-139-41927-7

1-139-04796-5

1-139-42131-X

1-139-41722-3

1-139-42336-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 264 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge bioethics and law ; ; 17

Disciplina

362.17/84

Soggetti

Blood banks - Government policy

Blood products - Safety measures

Blood - Moral and ethical aspects

Blood - Social measures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction; 2. The governance of the blood system; 3. Revisiting the gift relationship; 4. Professional beliefs and scientific expertise; 5. Risk and innovation; 6. The rise of the recipient; 7. The politics of precaution; 8. Regulating risk; 9. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

How best to manage risk involving multi-valued human biological materials is the overarching theme of this book, which draws on the sourcing and supply of blood as a case study. Blood has ethical, social, scientific and commercial value. This multi-valuing process presents challenges in terms of managing risk, therefore making it ultimately a matter for political responsibility. This is highlighted through an



examination of the circumstances that led to HIV blood contamination episodes in the US, England and France, as well as their consequences. The roles of scientific expertise and innovation in managing risks to the blood system are also analysed, as is the increased use of precautionary and legal strategies in the post-HIV blood contamination era. Finally, consideration is given to a range of policy and legal strategies that should underpin effective risk governance involving multi-valued human biological materials.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463232403321

Autore

Teuscher Simon

Titolo

Lords' rights and peasant stories [[electronic resource] ] : writing and the formation of tradition in the later Middle Ages / / Simon Teuscher ; translated by Philip Grace

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012

ISBN

0-8122-0881-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Collana

The Middle Ages series

Altri autori (Persone)

GracePhilip

Disciplina

340.5/5

Soggetti

Customary law - Switzerland - History - To 1500

Feudal law - Switzerland - History - To 1500

Law, Germanic - History - To 1500

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-284) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Two Inquiry Procedures -- Chapter 2. Dealing with Lordship Rights -- Chapter 3. Deposition Records: Techniques of Transcription and Narration -- Chapter 4. Weistümer: Microcosms of Law -- Chapter 5. Styles of Document Usage -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

In the mid-nineteenth century, Jacob Grimm published a collection of late medieval records of local law-called Weistümer-that was scarcely less comprehensive than his famous collection of fairy tales. As with



the fairy tales, Grimm assumed that before their transcription, people had handed these down orally from time immemorial. His interest in these customary laws arose from their seemingly folkloristic notions of custom and from their poetic narratives about ritualized encounters between lords and peasants, capturing an oral tradition from an unsophisticated time. Grimm's readings are still used today as a basis for theories about oral societies in the premodern West and contemporary non-Western societies and the modernizing effects of writing. As Simon Teuscher contends, however, those aspects of legal texts that have been considered since Grimm to be vestiges of a traditional preliterate popular culture were eventually rooted in relatively advanced and learned techniques of writing, jurisprudence, and administration. Lords' Rights and Peasant Stories uses examples from German- and French-speaking Switzerland to investigate what legal order meant to individuals and to a society at the eve of the early modern period. Teuscher deals with legal documents not only as texts, but also as objects. The book takes the materiality of documents seriously and reconstructs cultural techniques of their production and social practices of their use. Lords' Rights and Peasant Stories suggests the need to rethink master narratives about transitions from oral to literate societies. It explores the local dimensions of processes of state-formation and the emergence of modern notions of law in western Europe. Students of rural society and village organization will find here a discussion of local power distribution that is inspired by social anthropology, that looks beyond simple antagonisms between lords and peasants, and that insists on the role of state servants and the unconscious effects of their writing practices.