Impersonations : : Troubling the Person in Law and Culture / / Sheryl Hamilton.
Personhood is considered at once a sign of legal-political status and of socio-cultural agency, synonymous with the rational individual, subject, or citizen. Yet, in an era of life-extending technologies, genetic engineering, corporate social responsibility, and smart technology, the definition of t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: Troubling the Person
- 2 Persona Ficta: The Corporation as Moral Person
- 3 'Not a Sex Victory': Gendering the Person
- 4 Invented Humans: Kinship and Property in Persons
- 5 Machine Intelligence: Computers as Posthuman Persons
- 6 Celebrity Personae: Authenticating the Person
- 7 Conclusion: Impersonations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index