Soldier 2.0 : military human enhancement and international law / Heather A. Harrison Dinniss and Jann K. Kleffner
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Soldier 2.0 : military human enhancement and international law
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Heather A. Harrison Dinniss and Jann K. Kleffner
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Advances in technologies that could endow humans with physical or mental abilities that go beyond the statistically normal level of functioning are occurring at an incredible pace. The use of these human enhancement technologies by the military, for instance in the spheres of biotechnology, cybernetics and prosthetics, raise a number of questions under the international legal frameworks governing military technology, namely the law of armed conflict and human rights law. The article examines these frameworks with a focus on weapons law, the law pertaining to the detention of and by “enhanced individuals,” the human rights of those individuals and their responsibility for the actions they take while under the influence of enhancements.
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