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The Right to Science
Then and Now

Mikel Mancisidor, Cesare P. R. Romano, Aurora Plomer, Ivan Lind Christensen, Roberto Andorno, Farida Shaheed, Andrew Mazibrada, Yvonne Donders, Konstantinos Tarraras, Mylène Bidault, Valerie J. Bradley, Stjepan Oreskovic, Sebastian Porsdam Mann, Ranga Yogeshwar, Jessica M. Wyndham, Margaret W. Vitullo, Rebecca Everly, Teresa M. Stoepler, Nathaniel Weisenberg, Helle Porsdam, Mike Frick, Gisa Dang, Andrea Boggio, Brian Gran, Christine Mitchel
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  • Date Published: December 2021
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  • format: Hardback
  • isbn: 9781108478250

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  • 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.

    • Offers an exploration of a core cultural right: the right to science to give legally trained readers useful background information concerning the impact of the right to science on people's lives
    • Proposes the right to science as an empowering tool which will appeal to those who believe in rights talk and the rule of law as promising and aspirational endeavors, as well as those working in aid, development, global justice, science diplomacy and those looking for an actionable and justiciable tool for the furtherance of their human rights causes
    • Provides examples of inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary science in action, showing how different disciplines can interact
    • 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

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    • Date Published: December 2021
    • format: Hardback
    • isbn: 9781108478250
    • length: 225 pages
    • dimensions: 235 x 157 x 25 mm
    • weight: 0.63kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    1. The dawning of a right: science and the universal declaration of human rights (1941–1948) 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, Mylène 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.

  • Editors

    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, University of Copenhagen
    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.

    Contributors

    Mikel Mancisidor, Cesare P. R. Romano, Aurora Plomer, Ivan Lind Christensen, Roberto Andorno, Farida Shaheed, Andrew Mazibrada, Yvonne Donders, Konstantinos Tarraras, Mylène Bidault, Valerie J. Bradley, Stjepan Oreskovic, Sebastian Porsdam Mann, Ranga Yogeshwar, Jessica M. Wyndham, Margaret W. Vitullo, Rebecca Everly, Teresa M. Stoepler, Nathaniel Weisenberg, Helle Porsdam, Mike Frick, Gisa Dang, Andrea Boggio, Brian Gran, Christine Mitchel

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