Technology and Human Rights: Friends or Foes? Highlighting Innovations Applying to Natural Resources and Medicine

Abstract

The book consists of eleven chapters:

Part I: Introducing a human rights framework and clarifying human rights provisions Chapter 1: The Context, Including Basic Approaches or Understanding Human Rights Chapter 2: The Right to Benefit from Scientific Progress and its Applications Chapter 3: The Right to Enjoy the Moral and Material Interests Resulting from Intellectual Activity and Scientific Production Chapter 4: Freedom Indispensable for Scientific Research

Part II: The Practical Application Chapter 5: The Encounter Between Human Rights and Patent Rights Protection Chapter 6: Protection of Traditional Knowledge: Preventing Misappropriation, Promoting Benefit-Sharing, or Creating Unpredictability? Chapter 7: Genetic Technology: Essential for Reducing World Hunger and Promoting Cost-efficient Bioenergy? Chapter 8: Technology Transfer of Environmental Goods and Services: What are the Lessons from the WTO and UNFCCC Negotiations? Chapter 9: Dignity, Autonomy and Vulnerability: What Role for Human Rights in Health Care Ethics? Chapter 10: Human Rights in Science and Technology Professions’ Codes of Ethics?

Part III: The Way Forward Chapter 11: Conclusion

Keywords: patents, scientific freedom, scientific responsibility, traditional knowledge, genetic modification, climate change

JEL Classification: K33, O33, O34, Q16