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New Technologies and Human Rights

New Technologies and Human Rights

Author: Therese Murphy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199562572
Published In: January 2009
Format: Hardback
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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
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?

Readership: Human Rights Lawyers, Regulation scholars including lawyers, and .

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List of Contributors
1: Thérèse Murphy: Repetition, Revolution, and Resonance: An Introduction to New Technologies and Human Rights
2: Roger Brownsword: Human Dignity, Ethical Pluralism, and the Regulation of Modern Biotechnologies
3: Han Somsen: Regulating Human Genetics in a Neo-Eugenic Era
4: Francesca Bignami: Constitutional Patriotism and the Right to Privacy: A Comparison of the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights
5: Laurence Boisson de Chazournes: New Technologies, the Precautionary Principle and Public Participation
6: Thérèse Murphy: The Texture of Reproductive Choice: Law, Ethnography and Reproductive Technologies
7: Iulia Voina Motoc: The International Law of Genetic Discrimination: The Power of 'Never Again'
8: Hélène Boussard: Individual Human Rights in Genetic Research: Blurring the Line between Collective and Individual Interests
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Therese Murphy, Professor of Law and Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham

Contributors:

Francesca Bignami, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for European Studies, Duke University.
Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, Professor of International Law and Head of the Department of Public International Law and International Organization, University of Geneva.
Hélène Boussard, Scientific Officer, Bamako 2008 Secretariat.
Roger Brownsword, Professor of Law and Director of TELOS (the KCL Centre for the Study of Technology, Ethics and Law in Society), King's College London.
Iulia Motoc, Professor of International Law, University of Bucharest.
Thérèse Murphy, Professor of Law & Critical Theory, University of Nottingham.
Han Somsen, Professor and Director, Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society, Tilburg University .