Governance of Human Enhancement in Occupational Settings: Consent, Pressure and Reversibility

Authors

  • Barbara-M Ackermann-Zuber Centre for Human Augmentation, Muota Institute for Future Science, Schwyz, Switzerland Author
  • Loreta Alekna Centre for Research Ethics, Cepkeliai Institute for Future Science, Varena, Lithuania Author
  • Gerhard Fajkus Centre for Technology Governance, Trebicsko Institute for Future Science, Trebic, Czech Republic Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22677608

Keywords:

Governance of Human Enhancement in Occupational Settings; Future science and technology; Evidence synthesis; Reproducibility; Research methodology

Abstract

Governance of Human Enhancement in Occupational Settings has moved quickly from a niche scientific question to something a
wider community can now investigate with reasonably reliable tools, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull
together the current evidence for governance of human enhancement in occupational settings, covering the methodological,
practical, regulatory and cost angles, with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where researchers and reviewers
are still largely working it out for themselves. Selective, context-specific pursuit looks better supported by the evidence gathered
here than either broad rollout or blanket avoidance.

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