Neurorights: The Debate About New Legal Safeguards to Protect the Mind.

Unprecedented efforts are made to research and develop technologies that are directly connected to the brain and allow us to access, monitor, investigate, assess, manipulate or stimulate neural processes. This exciting development holds many valuable prospects in the medical context and in other fie...

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Publicado en:Issues in Law & Medicine Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 95 - 115
Autor principal: Istace, Timo
Formato: review Journal Article
Publicado: Issues in Law & Medicine Spring2022
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        affil: PhD researcher in the field of Health Law and Human Rights Law at the Department of Law, Research Group Personal Rights and Property Rights, University of Antwerp, Belgium. LL.M., University of Antwerp, Belgium, 2020
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          Human Rights Standards
          Public Policy
          Technology, Medical Equipment and Supplies
          Mental Processes
          Social Identity
          Privacy and Confidentiality
          Autonomy
          Discrimination
          Ethicists
          Self Concept
      ab: Unprecedented efforts are made to research and develop technologies that are directly connected to the brain and allow us to access, monitor, investigate, assess, manipulate or stimulate neural processes. This exciting development holds many valuable prospects in the medical context and in other fields of daily life such as entertainment, security or criminal justice. However, it also raises major concerns among ethicists and human rights advocates, who argue that fundamental interests are put at risk as these neurotechnologies result in a growing accessibility and influenceability of the mind. In this article, I will describe how neurotechnologies may affect fundamental interests and how this concern led to the emergence of the concept of neurorights within human rights doctrine and policy. I will first outline the current state of the art and the prospects of neurotechnology, and discuss how this technology impacts the mind. Second, I will examine how this in turn may impact our mental privacy, autonomy, authenticity, personal identity, the self, and non-discrimination. Finally, I will show how these concerns prompted initiatives to establish neurorights as new human rights offering appropriate legal safeguards that protect the human mind against unwanted interference by neurotechnology.
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