Anticipation in the biosciences and the human right to science
Boggio, Andrea LU
(2024)
In Journal of Law and the Biosciences
11(1).
- Abstract
Anticipation entails contemplating the beneficial and harmful impacts of scientific and technological progress. Anticipation has a long history in science, technology, and innovation policy partly due to future impacts of scientific progress being inescapable. The link between anticipation, an undertheorized concept, and human rights law is yet to be fully explored. This paper links anticipation to the rights to science, a lesser-studied human right codified in the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. The paper argues that the normative content of the right includes anticipation entitlements and duties. Combining the entitlements and duties with anticipation typologies leads to identifying three forms of... (More)
Anticipation entails contemplating the beneficial and harmful impacts of scientific and technological progress. Anticipation has a long history in science, technology, and innovation policy partly due to future impacts of scientific progress being inescapable. The link between anticipation, an undertheorized concept, and human rights law is yet to be fully explored. This paper links anticipation to the rights to science, a lesser-studied human right codified in the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. The paper argues that the normative content of the right includes anticipation entitlements and duties. Combining the entitlements and duties with anticipation typologies leads to identifying three forms of anticipation that governments (and, in some cases, scientists) must carry out: beneficial, responsible, and participatory anticipation. The paper concludes by identifying three ways in which further conceptual work can enrich human-rights-based anticipation.
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- author
- Boggio, Andrea
LU
- publishing date
- 2024
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Human rights, Mänskliga rättigheter
- in
- Journal of Law and the Biosciences
- volume
- 11
- issue
- 1
- article number
- lsae002
- pages
- 22 pages
- publisher
- Oxford University Press
- external identifiers
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- pmid:38380388
- scopus:85185789204
- ISSN
- 2053-9711
- DOI
- 10.1093/jlb/lsae002
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- © The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Duke University School of Law, Harvard Law School, Oxford University Press, and Stanford Law School.
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- date added to LUP
- 2025-11-19 17:13:51
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