The Right to Science

Helle Porsdam is Professor of Law and Humanities and UNESCO Chair in Cultural Rights at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She holds a PhD from Yale University in American Studies, has held fellowships at Harvard Law School; Wolfson College Cambridge; and was a Global Ethics Fellow with the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. Her publications include Legally Speaking: Contemporary American Culture and the Law (1999), From Civil to Human Rights: Dialogues in Law and Humanities in the United States and Europe (2009), and The Transforming Power of Cultural Rights: A Promising Law and Humanities Approach (2019). Sebastian Porsdam Mann is a DPhil researcher at the Faculty of Law at Oxford. He has previously held a postdoc in bioethics at Harvard Medical School and a Carlsberg Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Division of Philosophy at the University of Copenhagen, and was a hosted researcher at the University of Oxford Uehiro Center for Practical Ethics. He was educated in philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and applied bioethics at Cambridge. Before this, he served in the security division of the Germany Military Police. He is currently finishing a popular science book on the science and ethics of enhancing cognitive functions.

1. The dawning of a right: science and the universal declaration of human rights (1941–1948) Mikel Mancisidor; 2. The origins of the right to science: the American declaration on the rights and duties of man, Cesare P.R. Romano; 3. IP rights and human rights: what history tells us and why it matters, Aurora Plomer; 4. Fostering a love of truth: conceptions of science in UNESCO's early years Ivan Lind Christensen; 5. The right to science and the evolution of scientific integrity, Roberto Andorno; 6. On the right to science as a cultural human right Farida Shaheed and Andrew Mazibrada; 7. Mainstreaming science and human rights in UNESCO, Yvonne Donders and Konstantinos Tarraras; 8. Considering the right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications as a cultural right: a change in perspective, Mylène Bidault; 9. Implications of the right to science for people with disabilities Valerie J. Bradley; 10. Science in the times of SARS-CoV-19, Stjepan Oreskovic and Sebastian Porsdam Mann; 11. Fight the fear with the facts! Ranga Yogeshwar; 12. The right to science – from principle to practice and the role of national science academies, Jessica M. Wyndham, Margaret W. Vitullo, Rebecca Everly, Teresa M. Stoepler and Nathaniel Weisenberg; 13. The right to science in practice: a proposed test in four stages Sebastian Porsdam Mann, Yvonne Donders and Helle Porsdam; 14. The right to science: a practical tool for advancing global health equity and promoting the human rights of people with tuberculosis Mike Frick and Gisa Dang; 15. A proposal for indicators of the human right to science, Andrea Boggio and Brian Gran; 16. Epilogue Christine Mitchel.