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Porträtt av Ana Nordberg. Foto.

Ana Nordberg

Universitetslektor

Porträtt av Ana Nordberg. Foto.

Defining Human Enhancement : Towards a Foundational Conceptual Tool for Enhancement Law

Författare

  • Ana Nordberg

Summary, in English

Emerging technologies open the prospect of extraordinary interventions on the human body. These may go beyond what is strictly necessary to sustain health and well-being. While responding to social and ethical challenges of such advances, the Law simultaneously faces the challenge of reflecting on the legitimacy to legislate and on whether the existing legal framework is appropriate to address the various concerns. In order to do so, it is crucial to establish clear legal definitions. Precise distinctions between interventions on the human body are intrinsically difficult to formulate. However, subject-matter definitions are vital legal tools to determine what is currently regulated in established fields of law and whether there is room for a new legal field – Enhancement Law. This paper provides a reflection on the relevance of establishing a legal definition of human enhancement and to what extent different legal fields and jurisdictions may warrant different understandings of such concept. It reviews a number of different and often divergent concepts and taxonomies of human enhancement and concludes with the proposal and analysis of a definition: Use of technological means with the intention to improve, modify or introduce in the human body aesthetic features, physical, emotional or cognitive performance levels and abilities beyond the human species typical standards under the current evolutionary state, and resulting in induced permanent alterations in the human body.

Avdelning/ar

  • Mänskliga rättigheter
  • Health Law

Publiceringsår

2017-11-14

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of Law, Information & Science

Volym

25

Issue

3

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Ämne

  • Law

Nyckelord

  • Law
  • Induced evolution
  • Law & Technology
  • Legal interpretation
  • Neurolaw
  • Emerging technology regulation
  • Human enhancement
  • Rättsvetenskap

Aktiv

Epub

Forskningsgrupp

  • Human Rights Law
  • Health Law

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0729-1485