Science and Technology Ethics

✍ Scribed by Dr Raymond E.Spier, Raymond E. Spier

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 256
• Series: Professional Ethics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Our world has been radically transformed during the past 200 years with the industrial revolution and development of mass production techniques and recently the plethora of technological advancements in medicine, engineering, computation, communication and entertainment products. These have made major changes in the ways that we live our worlds and in our expectations of the future.

Science and Technology Ethics re-examines the ethics by which we live and asks the question: do we have in place the ethical guidelines through which we can incorporate these developments with the minimum of disruption and disaffection? It assesses the ethical systems in place and proposes new approaches to our scientific and engineering processes and products, our social contracts, biology and informatics, the military industry, and our environmental responsibilities. The volume is multidisciplinary and reflects the aim of the book to promote a state of the art assessment of these issues.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of contributors......Page 8
Science and engineering ethics: overview......Page 10
The processes of science......Page 31
Ethics and the products of science......Page 48
Engineering ethics......Page 68
Ethics in conflict......Page 98
A social contract?......Page 116
Biology, engineering and ethics......Page 136
Computers and society......Page 168
Ethical issues engendered by engineering with atomic nuclei......Page 189
Science and the military......Page 216
Engineering, ethics and the environment......Page 229