Introduction: rewriting life, reframing rights / Sheila Jasanoff
States of eugenics: institutions and practices of compulsory sterilization in California / Alex Wellerstein
Making the facts of life / Sheila Jasanoff
More than just a nucleus: cloning and the alignment of scientific and political rationalities / Giuseppe Testa
Between church and state: stem cells, embryos, and citizens in Italian politics / Ingrid Metzler
Certainty vs. finality: constitutional rights to postconviction DNA testing / Jay D. Aronson
Judicial imaginaries of technology: constitutional law and the forensic DNA databases / David E. Winickoff
Risks and rights in xenotransplantation / Mariachiara Tallacchini
Two tales of genomics: capital, epistemology, and global constitutions of the biomedical subject / Kaushik Sunder Rajan
Human population genomics and the dilemma of difference / Jenny Reardon
Despotism and democracy in the United Kingdom: experiments in reframing citizenship / Robert Doubleday and Brian Wynne
Representing Europe with the precautionary principle / Jim Dratwa.
