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The ethics of technological risk
- Title
- The ethics of technological risk / edited by Lotte Asveld and Sabine Roeser.
- Publication
- London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book/Text | Use in library | T174.5 .E84 2009 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 290 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Risk, society, and policy series
- Uniform Title
- Risk, society, and policy series.
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- An agenda for the ethics of risk / Sven Ove Hansson -- A plea for a rich conception of risks / Carl Cranor -- Requirements for the social acceptability of risk-generating technological activities / Henk Zandvoort -- Clinical equipoise and the assessment of acceptable therapeutic risk / Duff Waring -- Acceptable risk to future generations / Marc D. Davidson -- The ethical assessment of unpredictable risks in the use of genetically engineered livestock for biomedical research / Arianna Ferrari -- Ethics, reasons and risk analysis / Douglas MacLean -- Incommensurability : the failure to compare risks / Nicolas Espinoza -- Welfare judgements and risk / Greg Bognar -- Risk as feeling : some thoughts about affect, reason, risk and rationality / Paul Slovic ... [et al.] -- The relation between cognition and affect in moral judgements about risks / Sabine Roeser -- Risk and public imagination : mediated risk perception as imaginative moral judgement / Mark Coeckelbergh -- Trust and criteria for proof of risk : the case of mobile phone technology in the Netherlands / Lotte Asveld -- Risk management through national ethics councils? / Gero Kellermann -- Ethical responsibilities of engineers in design processes : risks, regulative frameworks and societal division of labour / Anke van Gorp and Armin Grunwald -- Governing technological risks / Michael Baram.
- ISBN
- 9781844076383 (hardback)
- 1844076385 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2008033036
- 99937744243
- OCLC
- ocn232976373
- 232976373
- SCSB-5523736
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries