Smart Drugs & Work In The Future
In a report published in the Journal of Medical Ethics warn employers may soon try to force their employees to take brain enhancing drugs to be more efficient workers, presuming the same development in the smart drug culture continues.
Macleans.ca interviewed Dr. Jacob Appel, a bioethics lecturer at Brown University in Rhode Island about the subject:
“I’m a strong supporter of individual autonomy and I think people should be able to enhance themselves all they want, but my concern is that employers will try to compel individuals to do that. Eventually, employers will begin to demand that their employees accept neurological enhancement as a condition for employment and promotion—and the working stiffs of the world will not have the financial power to resist.”
The original report, When the boss turns pusher: a proposal for employee protections in the age of cosmetic neurology, can be downloaded from the Journal of Medical Ethics Online as a PDF file.