New Technologies and Human Rights
ISBN13: 9780199562572ISBN10: 0199562571
Hardback,
304 pages
Feb 2009,
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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 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, how the expansive application of human rights could contribute to the creation of a brave new world of choice, where human dignity is fundamentally compromised; second, how new technologies, and our regulatory responses to them, could be a threat to human rights; and, third, how human rights could be used to create better regulation of these technologies.
Features
- A topical subject in light of the proliferation of new technologies, commented on here by leading experts in the field.
- A timely addition to the field of human rights law.
- Written to be accesible to the diverse range of disciplines interested in this area, so beyond the primary legal audience this will also appeal to bioethicists and scientists
About the Author(s)
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 UK expert team which provides thematic and annual reports for the EU's Fundamental Rights Agency.
