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Technology and Cultural Values : On the Edge of the Third Millennium /
Recent history makes clear that the quantum leaps being made in technology are the leading edge of a groundswell of paradigm shifts taking place in science, politics, economics, social institutions, and the expression of cultural values. Indeed it is the simultaneity and interdependence of these cha...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaii Press,
[2003]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction / Buchanan, James / Hershock, Peter
- 1. Technology, History, and the Contested Role of Cultural Difference
- Modern Technologies and Perspectives of Civilization / Stiopin, Vyacheslav
- Technology, Nature, and the Alleged Duty of Human Survival / Derringh, Frank W.
- Knowledge, Science, and Technology and the West-East Transition / Goonatilake, Susantha
- Islām and the Challenge of Modernity: Divergence of Worldviews / Al-Attas, Syed Muhammad Naquib
- 2. Biotechnologies
- Biomedicine, Bioethics, and Biotechnology: The Impact of Genetic Technologies / Ten Have, Henk A.M.J.
- Methodological Considerations in the Development of a Global Bioethic / Khushf, George
- Biomedical Technology: A Theological Approach / Cummings Neville, Robert
- Buddhist, Shinto, and Modern Japanese Views of Medicine and Terminal Care / Becker, Carl
- Philosophy and Fear: Hans Jonas and the Japanese Debate about the Ethics of Organ Transplantation / Lafleur, William R.
- Remaking the World or Remaking Ourselves? Buddhist Reflections on Technology / Loy, David R.
- Toward a Broader Notion of Causation (and Technology) / Ni, Peimin
- 3. Technology, Authority, and Dissent
- How to Distinguish Friends from Enemies: Human Rights Rhetoric and Western Mass Media / Möller, Hans-Georg
- Cultural Integrity, Globalization, and Technical Change: Further Thoughts on GMOs in the Food Supply / Thompson, Paul B.
- Women Carrying Water: Homeplace, Technology, and Transformation / Arisaka, Yoko
- Radical Catholicism, Popular Resistance, and Material Culture in El Salvador / Lorentzen, Lois Ann
- Environmental Justice, Supererogation, and Virtue Ethics: The Case of Chernobyl / Shrader-Frechette, Kristin
- Gandhi's Viable Vision of Relating Technology and Religion / Pandikattu, Kuruvilla
- Supreme Danger and Saving Power: Toward a Gandhian Response to Heidegger's Analysis of Technology / Srinivasan, Vasanthi
- 4. Food Technologies and Transgenic Species
- From Agriculture to Agribusiness: Transgenic Organisms in the New Millennium / Sentmartí, Ramon
- Cultural Values and Diversity of Agro-biodiversity for Food Security and Poverty Alleviation / Opole, Monica
- How Wholesome Is That Soup? or, The Political Contents of the Refrigerator / Bray, Francesca
- 5. Technology and the Home
- Of Greed, Gadgets, and Guests: The Future of Human Dwellings / Chakrabarti, Arindam
- Dwelling in Humanity or Free and Easy Wandering / Wong, David B.
- Losing Place: The Risks of Cosmopolitanism / Kupperman, Joel J.
- 6. Technology and the Aesthetics of Embodiment
- Art and Technology: The Touch of the Human / Margolis, Joseph
- Technical Arts and Reality: Status of the Referent in Photography and Cinema / Petrovsky, Helen
- Healing: The Body as Site of Medical and Religious Interaction / Kasulis, Thomas P.
- Sensory Dimensions in Intercultural Perspective and the Problem of Modern Media and Technology / Elberfeld, Rolf
- 7. Technology, Communication, and Education
- Thinking, Making, and Using: Technology and the Realization of Human Values / Tiles, Mary
- Cultural Collisions and Collusions in the Electronic Global Village: From McWorld and Jihad to Intercultural Cosmopolitanism / Ess, Charles
- Online Education and the Choices of Modernity / Feenberg, Andrew
- The Fate of Creative Solitudes in the Age of Information Technology / Krell, David Farrell
- The Emergence of Pure Consciousness: The Theater of Virtual Selves in the Age of the Internet / Heng, H. Jiuan
- 8. Critical Afterword
- Critical Literacies: Technology and Cultural Values (Comparative Philosophy and Philosophy of Technology in Conversation) / Buchanan, James P.
- Turning Away from Technotopia: Critical Precedents for Refusing the Colonization of Consciousness / Hershock, Peter D.
- Contributors
- Name Index
- Subject Index