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Technoscientific Angst : Ethics and Responsibility.

Reassesses the social and ethical situations of technoscientists. What responsibility do the Manhattan Project scientists have for the atomic devastation of Hiroshima? The Krupps scientists for the crematoriums at Auschwitz? Disturbing questions like these are at the heart of this book, a sobering e...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sassower, Raphael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Preface; 1 Responsible Technoscience: The Haunting Reality of Auschwitz and Hiroshima; 2 Public Expectations of Technoscience: From Truth to Immortality; 3 Ambiguity and Anxiety: The Making of Human Anguish; 4 The Postmodern Option: A Dialectical Critique; 5 Responsible Technoscience: A Reconstruction; 6 The Price of Responsibility: From Personal to Financial; 7 Cultural Changes: Agenda Setting; References; Index. 
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