- The Oxford Handbook of Law, Regulation, and Technology
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Law, Regulation, and Technology: The Field, Frame, and Focal Questions
- Law, Liberty, and Technology
- Equality: Old Debates, New Technologies
- Liberal Democratic Regulation and Technological Advance
- Identity
- The Common Good
- Law, Responsibility, and the Sciences of the Brain/Mind
- Human Dignity and the Ethics and Regulation of Technology
- Human Rights and Human Tissue: The Case of Sperm as Property
- Legal Evolution in Response to Technological Change
- Law and Technology in Civil Judicial Procedures
- Conflict of Laws and the Internet
- Technology and the American Constitution
- Contract Law and the Challenges of Computer Technology
- Criminal Law and the Evolving Technological Understanding of Behaviour
- Imagining Technology and Environmental Law
- From Improvement Towards Enhancement: A Regenesis of EU Environmental Law at the Dawn of the Anthropocene
- Parental Responsibility, Hyper-parenting, and the Role of Technology
- Human Rights and Information Technologies
- The CoExistence of Copyright and Patent Laws to Protect InnovationA Case Study of 3D Printing in UK and Australian Law
- Regulating Workplace Technology: Extending the Agenda
- Public International Law and the Regulation of Emerging Technologies
- Torts and Technology
- Tax Law and Technological Change
- Automatic Justice?: Technology, Crime, and Social Control
- Surveillance Theory and its Implications for Law
- Hardwiring Privacy
- Data Mining as Global Governance
- Solar Climate Engineering, Law, and Regulation
- Are Human Biomedical Interventions Legitimate Regulatory Policy Instruments?
- Challenges from the Future of Human Enhancement
- Race and the Law in the Genomic Age: A Problem for Equal Treatment Under the Law
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This chapter explores some challenges that arise in respect of the regulation of human enhancement. It opens by advocating a definitional pluralism that acknowledges the existence of many concepts of human enhancement. These highlight different moral concerns about the application of genetic and cybernetic technologies to human brains and bodies. I identify one concept that is particularly effective at expressing the upsides of human enhancement. Another concept serves better to reveal enhancement’s downsides. I describe a further concept that reveals moral issues connected with great degrees of human enhancement. The chapter concludes with a discussion of attempts to regulate enhancement in elite sport. I defend the efforts of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to keep artificial means of enhancement out of sport.
Keywords: doping, enhancement, human norms, radical enhancement, therapy, World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), transhumanism
Nicholas Agar, Victoria University of Wellington
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- The Oxford Handbook of Law, Regulation, and Technology
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Law, Regulation, and Technology: The Field, Frame, and Focal Questions
- Law, Liberty, and Technology
- Equality: Old Debates, New Technologies
- Liberal Democratic Regulation and Technological Advance
- Identity
- The Common Good
- Law, Responsibility, and the Sciences of the Brain/Mind
- Human Dignity and the Ethics and Regulation of Technology
- Human Rights and Human Tissue: The Case of Sperm as Property
- Legal Evolution in Response to Technological Change
- Law and Technology in Civil Judicial Procedures
- Conflict of Laws and the Internet
- Technology and the American Constitution
- Contract Law and the Challenges of Computer Technology
- Criminal Law and the Evolving Technological Understanding of Behaviour
- Imagining Technology and Environmental Law
- From Improvement Towards Enhancement: A Regenesis of EU Environmental Law at the Dawn of the Anthropocene
- Parental Responsibility, Hyper-parenting, and the Role of Technology
- Human Rights and Information Technologies
- The CoExistence of Copyright and Patent Laws to Protect InnovationA Case Study of 3D Printing in UK and Australian Law
- Regulating Workplace Technology: Extending the Agenda
- Public International Law and the Regulation of Emerging Technologies
- Torts and Technology
- Tax Law and Technological Change
- Automatic Justice?: Technology, Crime, and Social Control
- Surveillance Theory and its Implications for Law
- Hardwiring Privacy
- Data Mining as Global Governance
- Solar Climate Engineering, Law, and Regulation
- Are Human Biomedical Interventions Legitimate Regulatory Policy Instruments?
- Challenges from the Future of Human Enhancement
- Race and the Law in the Genomic Age: A Problem for Equal Treatment Under the Law
- Index
