Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2010
Keywords
arms race, psychopharmaceuticals, drugs, enhancement, emotion
Abstract
Normative analysis of cognition-enhancing drugs frequently weighs the liberty interests of drug users against egalitarian commitments to a "level playing field." Yet those who would refuse to engage in neuroenhancement may well find their liberty to do so limited in a society where such drugs are widespread. To the extent that unvarnished emotional responses are world-disclosive, neurocosmetic practices also threaten to provide a form of faulty data to their users. This essay examines underappreciated liberty-based and epistemic rationales for regulating cognition-enhancing drugs.
Publication Citation
30 Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society 9 (2010).
Disciplines
Health Law and Policy
Digital Commons Citation
30 Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society 9 (2010).