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Ethics and emerging technologies
Title
Ethics and emerging technologies / edited by Ronald L. Sandler, Northeastern University, Boston, USA.
ISBN
9780230367036 (pbk.)
0230367038 (pbk.)
023036702X (ebk)
9780230367029 (ebk)
Publication
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Copyright Notice Date
©2014.
Physical Description
xv, 583 pages ; 25 cm.
Summary
"Technology shapes every aspect of human experience and it is the primary driver of social and ecological change. Given this, it is surprising that we spend so little time studying, analyzing, and evaluating new technologies. Occasionally, an issue grabs public attention--for example, the use of human embryonic stem cells in medical research or online file sharing of music and movies. However, these are the exceptions. For the most part, we enthusiastically embrace each new technology and application with little critical reflection on how it will impact our lives and our world. What is more, when an issue raised by an emerging technology is attended to, we often lack the language, concepts, and critical perspectives to thoroughly address it. The aim of this textbook is to introduce students and other readers to the ethical issues associated with a broad array of emerging technologies--including nanotechnology, synthetic genomics, robotics, genetic engineering, geoengineering, synthetic meat, virtual reality, information technologies, sex selection, and many more--and to help them develop analytical skills and perspectives for effectively evaluating novel technologies and applications"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 09, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Preface
Structure and User's Guide
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I: GENERAL REFLECTION ON ETHICS AND TECHNOLOGY
1. Section Overview
2. Technology: Practice and Culture; A. Pacey
3. Technology and Responsibility: Reflections on the New Tasks of Ethics; H. Jonas
4. Technologies as Forms of Life; L. Winner
PART II: REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES
5. Section Overview
6. Reproductive Technologies: Ethical Debates; L. Frith
7. Preventing a Brave New World; L. Kass
8. The Ethics of Sex Selection; I. de Melo-Martin
9. Selecting Children: The Ethics of Reproductive Genetic Engineering; M. Liao
PART III: BIOMEDICAL AND THERAPEUTIC TECHNOLOGIES
10. Section Overview
11. Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research; I. de Melo-Martin and M. Gillis
12. Crossing Species Boundaries; J. Robert and F. Baylis
13. The Coming Era of Nanomedicine; F. Allhoff
14. Psychopharmacology and Functional Neurosurgery: Manipulating Memory, Thought, and Mood; W. Glannon
15. Incentivizing Access and Innovation for Essential Medicines: A Survey of the Problem and Proposed Solutions; M. Ravvin
PART IV: HUMAN ENHANCEMENT TECHNOLOGIES
16. Section Overview
17. Beyond Therapy; United States President's Council on Bioethics
18. Why I Want to be a Posthuman When I Grow Up; N. Bostrom
19. Moral Enhancement; T. Douglas
20. Enhancing Justice; T. Garcia and R. Sandler
PART V: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
21. Section Overview
22. Bigger Monster, Weaker Chains: The Growth of An American Surveillance Society; J. Stanley and B. Steinhardt
23. Nanotechnology and Privacy: The Instructive Case of RFID; J. Van den Hoven
24. Intellectual Property: Legal and Moral Challenges of Online File Sharing; R. Spinello
25. Virtual Reality and Computer Simulation; P. Brey
26. The Digital Divide; K. Himma and Maria Bottis
PART VI: ROBOTICS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
27. Section Overview
28. Ethics, War, and Robots; P. Lin, K. Abney and G. Bekey
29. Ethics, Law, and Governance in the Development of Robots; W. Wallach
30. What to do About Artificial Consciousness; J. Basl
31. The Singularity is Near; R. Kurzweil
PART VII: ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY
32. Section Overview
33. Risk, Precaution, and Nanotechnology; K. Elliott
34. Avoiding Catastrophic Climate Change: Why Technological Innovation is Necessary but Not Sufficient; P. Cafaro
35. Ethical Anxieties about Geoengineering; C. Hamilton
36. Ecosystems Unbound: Ethical Questions for an Interventionist Ecology; B. Minteer and J. Collins
PART VIII: AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY
37. Section Overview
38. Ethics and Genetically Modified Foods; G. Comstock
39. Women and the Gendered Politics of Food; V. Shiva
40. The Ethics of Agricultural Animal Biotechnology; R. Streiffer and J. Basl
41. Artificial Meat; P. Thompson
PART IX: SYNTHETIC GENOMICS AND ARTIFICIAL LIFE
42. Section Overview
43. Synthetic Biology, Biosecurity, and Biosafety; M. Garfinkle and L. Knowles
44. Evolution and the Deep Past: Intrinsic Responses to Synthetic Biology; C. Preston
45. Social and Ethical Implications of Creating Artificial Cells; M.A. Bedau and M. Triant
Index.
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