Chapter 4 Capacity-Increasing Technologies and the Problems of Informed Consent

Chapter 4 Capacity-Increasing Technologies and the Problems of Informed Consent
Book Chapter
Military Ethics and the Changing Nature of Warfare, 2023 [Brill]
Jean-François Caron
Abstract
Obtaining informed consent from members of the armed forces prior to their use of capacity-increasing technologies or medicines is plagued by numerous hurdles. This chapter argues that there are reasons to rethink the relevance of this criterion in favor of rethinking how these technologies and medicines ought to be tested in their developmental phase.