Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- List of Figures
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Defining Human Enhancement and Definitional Issues
- Chapter 2 Analysis of the Arguments in the Ethics Debate Concerning Human (Mood) Enhancement Technology
- Chapter 3 Current Regulation of Human Mood Enhancement Technology
- Chapter 4 Confrontations between Ethics and Law
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
Conclusions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2025
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- List of Figures
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Defining Human Enhancement and Definitional Issues
- Chapter 2 Analysis of the Arguments in the Ethics Debate Concerning Human (Mood) Enhancement Technology
- Chapter 3 Current Regulation of Human Mood Enhancement Technology
- Chapter 4 Confrontations between Ethics and Law
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
Summary
ABSTRACT
The final chapter of this book provides an overview of the main conclusions stemming from analyses performed in the previous chapters and elaborates on the ethical and legal recommendations for policymakers and lawmakers at the UN, CoE, and EU levels concerning the current regulatory framework dealing with mood HETs. Another section at the end of this chapter provides several final high-level remarks about conducted research on human (mood) enhancement technologies, as well as suggestions for further research on this topic. Finally, an annexe to this chapter provides an informative summary of all the analysed pieces of legislation.
THE MAIN CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
593. Based on the findings from the research performed in this book, this final chapter provides a summary of the main conclusions that were established at the end of some of the preceding chapters. This chapter also develops normative recommendations on how ethical issues, analysed in Chapter 2 , and legal uncertainties, outlined in Chapter 3 , associated with mood HETs could be tackled to answer the main research question of this book:“How should policymakers and lawmakers address the main ethical and regulatory challenges of human mood enhancement technology?“.
594. Before discussing ethics and the law of mood HETs, some notions and concepts needed to be clarified first. The notion of mood falls, together with notions of emotions and feelings, within the umbrella term of affective states of people.
Information
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Mood Enhancement TechnologyEthical and Legal Challenges, pp. 197 - 214Publisher: IntersentiaPrint publication year: 2025
Accessibility standard: Unknown
Accessibility compliance for the PDF of this book is currently unknown
and may be updated in the future.