出版社：AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law
摘要：Professor Brownsword is a well-known expert on issues of technology, ethics and law and has long been associated with the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee in the UK. This book benefits immensely from that association. The book could essentially be seen as a continuation of his work in Law as a Moral Judgement. In this book he extends his analysis of the ethical concepts underlying the regulatory apparatus and the decision-making in the case of such ‘revolutionary’ technologies as biotechnology and nanotechnology. Early on in his book, Professor Brownsword defines “regulators” narrowly to include only government and agencies associated with its regulation of conduct. However “regulation” itself is defined too broadly by the author to include “whatever measures” regulators take to control conduct. This allows him to address a gamut of strategies that, although not always falling strictly into the definition of regulation, do regulate behaviour in an intended manner. This is especially true in the case of technology, where regulation is forever in the danger of becoming obsolete if it becomes too specific or too general to control specific technology developments.
