Ethical governance and ethical tools

Abstract

Ethically sensitive decision making is needed both with regard to general policies on human enhancement and with regard to specific enhancement applications. Science, technology and innovation policies may, on the one hand, be developed to support or steer HE technology trajectories in certain directions. This requires societal deliberation regarding the kind of innovation we, as a society, want to encourage. As we argue in Chap. 1, there is, on the other hand, also a need for ethical assessment of specific applications. This kind of ethical assessment will often have a regulatory or decision-making focus. This is the decision making level targeted in this book, where no framework yet has been proposed in the field of HE.