New technologies and human rights
By: edited by Thérèse Murphy.
Contributors: Murphy, Thérèse.
Series: Collected courses of the Academy of European Law
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780199562572
Subjects: Genetic engineering -- Law and legislation; Biotechnology -- Law and legislation; Human experimentation in medicine -- Law and legislation; Human reproductive technology -- Law and legislation; Human rights; Medical ethics; Bioethics
Description: In an era increasingly dominated by new technologies there are many calls for regulation to control their application. This text reviews and develops the role of human rights in the regulation of new technologies discussing how rights are affected by technological development, and how they can be used to improve regulation.
Table of contents: title: Repetition, revolution, and resonance: an introduction to new technologies and human rights / Therese Murphy; title: Human dignity, ethical pluralism, and the regulation of modern biotechnologies / Roger Brownsword; title: Regulating human genetics in a Neo-Eugenic Era / Han Somsen; title: Constitutional patriotism and the right to privacy: a comparison of the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights / Francesca Bignami; title: New technologies, the precautionary principle, and public participation / Laurence Boisson de Chazournes; title: The texture of reproductive choice: law, ethnography and reproductive technologies / Therese Murphy; title: The international law of genetic discrimination: the power of 'Never again' / Iulia Voina Motoc; title: Individual human rights in genetic research: blurring the line between collective and individual interests / Helene Boussard.