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The Right to Science Helle Porsdam (University of Copenhagen)

The Right to Science By Helle Porsdam (University of Copenhagen)

The Right to Science by Helle Porsdam (University of Copenhagen)

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Leading academics, civil servants, lawyers, policymakers, and civil society representatives reflect on the powerful-but-neglected human right to science. This will appeal to anyone interested in how this right is pertinent to numerous issues at the intersection of science and society. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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The Right to Science: Then and Now by Helle Porsdam (University of Copenhagen)

That everyone has a human right to enjoy the benefits of the progress of science and its applications comes as a surprise to many. Nevertheless, this right is pertinent to numerous issues at the intersection of science and society: open access; 'dual use' science; access to ownership and dissemination of data, knowledge, methods and the affordances and applications thereof; as well as the role of international co-operation, human dignity and other human rights in relation to science and its products. As we advance towards superintelligence, quantum computing, drone swarms, and life-extension technology, serious policy decisions will be made at the national and international levels. The human right to science provides an ideal tool to do so, backed up as it is by international law, political heft, and normative weight. This book is the first sustained attempt at turning this wonder of foresight into an actionable and justiciable right. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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'The right to science, as this collection suggests, deserves greater attention, and this admirable contribution opens avenues for future scholarship.' Dena Kirpalani , Human Rights Review

About Helle Porsdam (University of Copenhagen)

Helle Porsdam is Professor of Law and Humanities and UNESCO Chair in Cultural Rights at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She holds a PhD from Yale University in American Studies, has held fellowships at Harvard Law School; Wolfson College Cambridge; and was a Global Ethics Fellow with the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. Her publications include Legally Speaking: Contemporary American Culture and the Law (1999), From Civil to Human Rights: Dialogues in Law and Humanities in the United States and Europe (2009), and The Transforming Power of Cultural Rights: A Promising Law and Humanities Approach (2019). Sebastian Porsdam Mann is a DPhil researcher at the Faculty of Law at Oxford. He has previously held a postdoc in bioethics at Harvard Medical School and a Carlsberg Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Division of Philosophy at the University of Copenhagen, and was a hosted researcher at the University of Oxford Uehiro Center for Practical Ethics. He was educated in philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and applied bioethics at Cambridge. Before this, he served in the security division of the Germany Military Police. He is currently finishing a popular science book on the science and ethics of enhancing cognitive functions.

Table of Contents

1. The dawning of a right: science and the universal declaration of human rights (19411948) Mikel Mancisidor; 2. The origins of the right to science: the American declaration on the rights and duties of man, Cesare P.R. Romano; 3. IP rights and human rights:what history tells us and why it matters, Aurora Plomer; 4. Fostering a love of truth: conceptions of science in UNESCO's early years Ivan Lind Christensen; 5. The right to science and the evolution of scientific integrity, Roberto Andorno; 6. On the right to science as a cultural human right Farida Shaheed and Andrew Mazibrada; 7. Mainstreaming science and human rights in UNESCO, Yvonne Donders and Konstantinos Tarraras; 8. Considering the right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications as a cultural right: a change in perspective, Mylene Bidault; 9. Implications of the right to science for people with disabilities Valerie J. Bradley; 10. Science in the times of SARS-CoV-19, Stjepan Oreskovic and Sebastian Porsdam Mann; 11. Fight the fear with the facts! Ranga Yogeshwar; 12. The right to science from principle to practice and the role of national science academies, Jessica M. Wyndham, Margaret W. Vitullo, Rebecca Everly, Teresa M. Stoepler and Nathaniel Weisenberg; 13. The right to science in practice: a proposed test in four stages Sebastian Porsdam Mann, Yvonne Donders and Helle Porsdam; 14. The right to science: a practical tool for advancing global health equity and promoting the human rights of people with tuberculosis Mike Frick and Gisa Dang; 15. A proposal for indicators of the human right to science, Andrea Boggio and Brian Gran; 16. Epilogue Christine Mitchel.

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NPB9781108478250
9781108478250
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The Right to Science: Then and Now by Helle Porsdam (University of Copenhagen)
Helle Porsdam (University of Copenhagen)
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Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2021-12-02
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