Biolaw emerges as a discipline in its own right

While bioethics is a well established academic discipline, biolaw is often overlooked. Unlike bioethics, which is concerned with the question of what should be done or avoided, biolaw aims to answer the question what must or must not be done. Often, issues of biolaw are considered to fall into the purview of health care law. legal philosopy or human rights. While this is often the case, biolaw as a discipline has to offer more. In this article, Lena Groth of the University of Hamburg not only describes a recent conference but also the emergence of biolaw and its relation to bioethics and biopolitics.

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