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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Lotte Asveld , Sabine RoeserPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Earthscan Ltd Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.612kg ISBN: 9781844076383ISBN 10: 1844076385 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 27 November 2008 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsForeword Yvo de Boer Acknowledgements Part I: Introduction 1. The Ethics of Technological Risk: Introduction and Overview 2. An Agenda for the Ethics of Risk Part II: Principles and Guidelines 3. A Plea for a Rich Conception of Risks 4. Requirements for the Social Acceptability of Risk Generating Technological Activities 5. Clinical Equipoise and the Assessment of Acceptable Therapeutic Risk 6. Acceptable Risk to Future Generations 7. The Ethical Assessment of Unpredictable Risks in the Use of Genetically Engineered Livestock for Biomedical Research Part III: Methodological Considerations 8. Ethics, Reasons, and Risk Analysis 9. Incommensurability: The Failure to Compare Risks 10. Welfare Judgments and Risk Part IV: Involving the Public 11. Risk As Feeling: Some Thoughts about Affect, Reason, Risk and Rationality 12. The Relation between Cognition and Affect in Moral Judgments about Risks 13. Risk and Public Imagination: Mediated Risk Perception as Imaginative Moral Judgment 14. Trust and Criteria for Proof of Risk: The Case of Mobile Phone Technology in the Netherlands Part V: Instruments for Democratization 15. Risk-Management through National Ethics Councils? 16. Ethical Responsibilities of Engineers in Design Processes: Risks, Regulative Frameworks and Societal Division of Labour Part VI: Conclusion 17. Governing Technological Risks Acronyms and Abbreviations References IndexReviews'An excellent introduction into the field of the ethics of risks. Both philosophers interested in risks and risks analysts who would like to include moral considerations in their analyses will find the book informative.' Science and Engineering Ethics 'A timely recognition of the growing need to address philosophical questions concerning technological risk, risk assessment processes and regulation ... It opens discussions, shows the potential of philosophical analysis and reports case studies that take the proposed agenda further.' Theoria Author InformationSabine Roeser is an assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy, Delft University of Technology. She has published articles and edited books in the areas of moral philosophy, risk and emotion. Lotte Asveld currently works at the Dutch Institute for Technology Assessment, the Rathenau Institute in The Hague. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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