Human Dignity, Ethical Pluralism, and the Regulation of Modern Biotechnologies

New Technologies and Human Rights

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Brownsword, Roger ^a,b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biotechnologies; Ethics; Human dignity; Human rights; New technologies; Regulation; Utilitarianism

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649652408     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199562572.003.0002     Document Type: Chapter

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1. Compare M. Klang, Disruptive Technology (2006);
2. A. Burgess, Cellular Phones, Public Fears, and a Culture of Precaution (2004) at 59.
3. For an interesting discussion of the relationship between technological development and cultural change, see Somerville, 'Searching for Ethics in a Secular Society', in UNESCO, Ethics of Science and Technology: Explorations of the Frontiers of Science and Ethics (2006) 17-39.
4. Compare Price, 'The Newness of New Technology' (2001) 22 Cardozo L Rev 1885.
5. On the extent to which the new information society may be regarded as revolutionary, see Fried, 'Perfect Freedom, Perfect Control?' (2000) 114 Harvard L Rev 606.
6. See Brownsword, 'What the World Needs Now: Techno-Regulation, Human Rights and Human Dignity', in R. Brownsword (ed), Human Rights (Volume IV of Global Governance and the Quest for Justice) (2004) 203.
7. See Brownsword, 'Making People Better and Making Better People:Bioethics and the Regulation of Stem Cell Research' (2005) 1 J of Academic Legal Studies 3 (online).
8. See, further, Beyleveld and Brownsword, 'Principle, Proceduralism and Precaution in a Community of Rights' (2006) 19 Ratio Juris 141.
9. Compare Brownsword, 'Cloning, Zoning, and the Harm Principle', in S.A.M. McLean (ed), First Do No Harm (2006) 525.
10. Compare Caulfield and Brownsword, 'Human Dignity: A Guide to Policy Making in the Biotechnology Era' (2006) 7 Nature Reviews Genetics 72.
11. Philippe Séguin, 'Speech by Mr. Philippe Séguin', in Proceedings of the Third Session of the International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO, September 1995, vol i (Paris: International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO, 1995) 119, 120 (emphasis added).
12. Generally, see J. Rendtorff and P. Kemp, Basic Ethical Principles in European Bioethics and Biolaw (vol I: Autonomy, Dignity, Integrity and Vulnerability) (1999).
13. I. Kant, The Metaphysics of Morals (translated and edited by Mary Gregor) (1996) (first published 1797) 209.
14. See eg Wolbert, 'The Kantian Formula of Human Dignity and its Implications for Bioethics' (1998) 4 Human Reproduction & Genetic Ethics 18.
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16. Mill, 'On Liberty', in J.S. Mill, Utilitarianism (1962) (edited by Mary Warnock).
17. G.P. Fletcher, Basic Concepts of Legal Thought (1996), at 109.
18. See, further, Brownsword, 'The Cult of Consent: Fixation and Fallacy' (2004) 15 King's college 223;
19. D. Beyleveld and R. Brownsword, Consent in the Law (2007).
20. Compare Kadidal, 'Obscenity in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' (1996) 44 American J of Comparative Law 353.
21. N.C. Manson and O. O'Neill, Rethinking Informed Consent in Bioethics (2007).
22. Compare Black, 'Regulation as Facilitation: Negotiating the Genetic Revolution', in R. Brownsword, W.R. Cornish, and M. Llewelyn (eds), Human Genetics and the Law: Regulating a Revolution (1998) 29.
23. Lebacqz, 'On the Elusive Nature of Respect', in S. Holland, K. Lebacqz, and L. Zoloth (eds), The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate (2001) 149, at 160.
24. See eg Keown, 'Restoring Moral and Intellectual Shape to the Law after Bland' (1997) 113 LQR 481.
25. See, further, Brownsword, 'The Cult of Consent: Fixation and Fallacy' (2004) 15 KCLJ 223.
26. Sunstein, 'Is There a Constitutional Right to Clone?' (2002) 53 Hastings LJ 987, at 1000.
27. See, further, R. Brownsword, Rights, Regulation and the Technological Revolution (2008), especially Ch 7.
28. Compare Tadros, 'Power and the Value of Privacy', in Claes, Duff, and Gutwirth (eds), Privacy and the Criminal Law (2006) 105 (especially Tadros's discussion of what he calls Camerania).
29. Brownsword, 'Code, Control and Choice: Why East is East and West is West' (2005) 25 LS 1.
30. See, too, Brownsword, 'Red Lights and Rogues:Regulating Human Genetics', in H. Somsen (ed), The Regulatory Challenge of Biotechnology (2007) 39.
31. L. Lessig, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999), at 53-4;
32. 'The Law of the Horse: What Cyberlaw Might Teach' (1999) 113 Harv L Rev 501, at 533-4.
33. Lessig, 'The Zones of Cyberspace' (1996) 48 Stan L Rev 1403, at 1408 (emphasis added).
34. Compare Touraine, 'The Crisis of "Progress"', in M. Bauer (ed), Resistance to New Technology (1995) 45.
35. See, further, Brownsword, 'Genetic Databases: One for All and All for One?' (2007) 18 King's LJ 247.
36. Compare L.R. Kass, Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity (2002), at 22: 'the new biotechnologies threaten not so much liberty and equality as something we might summarily call "human dignity" '.
37. Joy, 'Why the Future Doesn't Need Us' (2000) 8(4) Wired () at p 3 (last accessed 10 July 2008).