New Technologies and Human Rights
Published on 22. January 2009
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-0-19-956257-2 (ISBN)
Description
The first IVF baby was born in the 1970s. Less than 20 years later, we had cloning and GM food, and information and communication technologies had transformed everyday life. In 2000, the first map of the human genome was sequenced. More recently, there has been much discussion of the economic and social benefits of nanotechnology, and synthetic biology has also been generating controversy.
This important volume is a timely contribution to increasing calls for regulation - or better regulation - of these and other new technologies. Drawing on an international team of legal scholars, it reviews and develops the role of human rights in the regulation of new technologies. Three controversies at the intersection between human rights and new technology are given particular attention. First, are human rights contributing to the creation of a brave new world of choice, where human dignity is fundamentally compromised? Second, are new technologies a threat to human rights? Finally, can human rights create better regulation of these technologies?
This important volume is a timely contribution to increasing calls for regulation - or better regulation - of these and other new technologies. Drawing on an international team of legal scholars, it reviews and develops the role of human rights in the regulation of new technologies. Three controversies at the intersection between human rights and new technology are given particular attention. First, are human rights contributing to the creation of a brave new world of choice, where human dignity is fundamentally compromised? Second, are new technologies a threat to human rights? Finally, can human rights create better regulation of these technologies?
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
634 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-956257-2 (9780199562572)
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Person
Therese Murphy is Professor of Law & Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham. She is the author of Civil Liberties Law: The Human Rights Act Era (OUP, 2001) with Stephen Livingstone and Noel Whitty. She is on the editorial board of the Human Rights Law Review, and is a member of the expert team that provides thematic and annual reports on the UK for the EU's Fundamental Rights Agency.
Content
Table of Cases ; Table of Legislation ; List of Abbreviations ; List of Contributors ; 1. Repetition, Revolution, and Resonance: An Introduction to New Technologies and Human Rights ; 2. Human Dignity, Ethical Pluralism, and the Regulation of Modern Biotechnologies ; 3. Regulating Human Genetics in a Neo-Eugenic Era ; 4. Constitutional Patriotism and the Right to Privacy: A Comparison of the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights ; 5. New Technologies, the Precautionary Principle and Public Participation ; 6. The Texture of Reproductive Choice: Law, Ethnography and Reproductive Technologies ; 7. The International Law of Genetic Discrimination: The Power of 'Never Again' ; 8. Individual Human Rights in Genetic Research: Blurring the Line between Collective and Individual Interests ; Index