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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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Additional Authors
  • Asveld, Lotte
  • Roeser, Sabine
Description
xii, 290 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Risk, society, and policy series
Uniform Title
Risk, society, and policy series.
Subject
  • Technology > Risk assessment
  • Ethics
  • Technologie
  • Risicoanalyse
  • Ethische aspecten
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