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On the dual uses of science and ethics : principles, practices, and prospects /
Claims about the transformations enabled by modern science and medicine have been accompanied by an unsettling question in recent years: might the knowledge being produced undermine--rather than further--human and animal well being? On the Dual Uses of Science and Ethics examines the potential for t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Acton, A.C.T. :
ANU E Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Practical ethics and public policy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Ethics and dual-use research
- 2. Nanotechnology and dual-use dilemmas
- 3. What does neuroethics have to say about the problem of dual use?
- 4. Synthetic biology as a field of dual-use bioethical concern
- 5. Crops agents, phytopathology and ethical review
- 6. The super TB experiment: Evolution and resolution of an experiment with dual-use concerns
- 7. Moral development and ethical decision-making
- 8. Responsible dual use
- 9. An expected-value approach to the dual-use problem
- 10. The doctrine of double effect and the ethics of dual use
- 11. Unknowns in dual-use dilemmas
- 12. Moral responsibility, collective-action problems and the dual-use dilemma in science and technology
- 13. Biosecurity and the just-war tradition
- 14. The precautionary principle and the dual-use dilemma
- 15. Scientific control over dual-use research: Prospects for self-regulation
- 16. Contrasting dual-use issues in biology and nuclear science
- 17. Considering contextuality in dual-use discussions: Is there a problem?
- 18. Exploring the role of life scientists in combating the misuse of incapaciting chemical and toxin agents
- 19. WHO project on responsible life-sciences research for global health security: Why ethics and how to strengthen it?
- 20. Ethics as ...
- Appendix A.