This book is a seminal work that explores the intricate relationship between technology, ethics, and the welfare of non-human animals. Edited by Rosalyn W. Berne, this volume brings together leading scholars and practitioners to examine the ethical...Loe edasi...
This book is a concise introduction to emerging concepts and ideas found at the intersection of contemporary behavioural science and artificial intelligence. It explores how these disciplines interact, change and adapt to one another, and what the i...Loe edasi...
To better understand such technologies impact on ethics and sustainability, this book situates digital technologies within a cultural context, arguing that the technology is received differently in different cultural contexts....Loe edasi...
In the midst of the 4th industrial revolution, big data is weighed in gold, placing enormous power in the hands of data scientists - the modern AI alchemists. This book seeks to shape, in a practical, diverse and inclusive way, the ethical compass o...Loe edasi...
This book is for computer and data scientists, software developers and engineers, designers, and people in management or marketing roles. The books aim is to empower these people to take responsibility; to upgrade their skills for ethical reflecti...Loe edasi...
This book examines the intersection of artificial intelligence, psychology, and ethics in the design and implementation of technologically supported education, decision-making, and leadership training. It is essential reading for students, researche...Loe edasi...
This multi-disciplinary book presents the current state of stem cell science in society, twenty years on from the first cultivation of human embryonic stem cells and ten years after the invention of genetically altered human stem cells....Loe edasi...
Industrial agriculture relys on GMOs and failed in its mandate to feed the world. GMOs proliferation trivializes risks to food safety and integrity, coinciding with urbanization, globalization, and the centralization of our food system. This book be...Loe edasi...
This book critiques the application of the morality provision in Article 53(a) of the European Patent Convention a source of controversy when deciding whether to grant patents on biotechnological inventions. Despite deep moral disagreement and crit...Loe edasi...
Disclosure is a frequently used, but rarely interrogated concept in health and social welfare. Abuse, disability, sexuality and health status can be disclosed to peers and professionals, sometimes as a requirement, rather than by choice. This collec...Loe edasi...
This book was originally published in 1999, and shows that in the light of current practice and attitudes, increasing living donor transplantation (LDT) levels is feasible, analysing the ethical and legal issues involved in LDT use in the light of e...Loe edasi...
Exploring the use of assisted reproduction technologies in many different locations, this volume provides a general understanding of policies, discourses and practices of ARTs in the contemporary world....Loe edasi...
The aim of this book is to generate a strong operational ethic in the work of engineers from all disciplines. It provides numerous examples of engineers who sought to meet the highest ethical standards, risking both professional and personal retalia...Loe edasi...
This critical social science monograph examines direct-to-consumer genetic testing. Focusing on disease testing, it asks, what new social arrangements emerge when a traditionally clinical practice (genetic testing) is taken into new spaces (the inte...Loe edasi...
The book presents a better understanding of the scientific method and promotes critical thinking in the community. This knowledge helps the reader to objectively analyze issues and warns about the dangers of bias and propaganda. The principles are i...Loe edasi...
Nanotechnology, geoengineering and clean technology span the scale of human ingenuity from the imperceptibly small to the unimaginably large, and are united by a commonality of ethics that permeates how and why they are developed, and how the result...Loe edasi...
This volume presents a collection of key articles which focus on the ethical evaluation of performance-enhancing technologies in sport. The essays demonstrate the significance of the principles of preventing harm, ensuring fairness and preserving me...Loe edasi...
The Dalai Lama rarely speaks directly on the topics of leadership, business and economics. Through in-depth dialogue with a number of leading social and economic thinkers, this important book sheds light on the most pressing questions that we face....Loe edasi...
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 was a major update to the UKs laws on the use reproductive technology and regulation of assisted reproduction. This book critically evaluates the recent developments, asking whether the Act has achieve...Loe edasi...
This book reflects on the many contributions made in and to European bioethics to date, in various locations, and from various disciplinary perspectives. In so doing, the book advances understanding of the academic and social status of European bioe...Loe edasi...
This book argues that urgent and biopolitical issues should be central to how biology is taught as a subject. Life political debate is thoroughly analysed and is shown to be a way of connecting mainstream education of biology with future...Loe edasi...
Ilina Singh, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Julian Savuleca
Sari: Oxford Series in Neuroscience, Law, and Philosophy
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Nov-2013, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199844180)
Many decisions in law and elsewhere depend on predictions of crimes and mental illnesses. Can biology make these predictions more accurate? Do we want our government to use biology in this way? These questions and more are discussed in this volume b...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Jan-2012, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199860852)
While functioning quite well for many years, the bioethics profession is in crisis. John H. Evans closely examines the history of the bioethics profession, and based on the sociological reasons the profession evolved as it did, proposes a radical so...Loe edasi...
Dignity is often denounced as hopelessly amorphous or incurably theological. But this is wrong, says Charles Foster. In this ambitious, paradigm-shattering but highly readable book, he argues that dignity is the only sustainable Theory of Everything...Loe edasi...
Technology has played an significant role in creating sustainability problems that we now face; but it will also play an important role in resolving them. But this does not mean the technological fix will be easy. This book illustrates that the sust...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-May-2011, Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781118104828)
For engineering and scientific endeavors to progress there must be generally accepted ethical guidelines in place to which engineers and scientists must adhere. This book explores the various scientific and engineering disciplines, examining the pot...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Mar-2011, Kirjastus: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd), ISBN-13: 9781444393552)
This stimulating volume is the first to review the very latest scientific developments in human enhancement. It is unique in its examination of the ethical and policy implications of these technologies from a broad range of perspectives, including p...Loe edasi...
Offers a profound analysis of science and technology policymaking. By focusing on an episode of major importance in Britains nuclear history - the Windscale Inquiry, a public hearing about the future of fuel reprocessing - this title offers a criti...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Feb-2010, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199273966)
To what extent should parents be allowed to use reproductive technologies to determine the characteristics of their future children? Is there something morally wrong with choosing what their sex will be, or with trying to screen out as much diseas...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Jan-2010, Kirjastus: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd), ISBN-13: 9781444317992)
What Is Nanotechnology and Why Does It Matter? provides a balanced understanding of this important emerging technology and the social and ethical issues that come from it. The text starts with an introduction to the science of nanotechnology, and at...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jan-2010, Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781118269244)
The first authoritative yet accessible guide to this controversial topic Stem Cell Research For Dummies offers a balanced, plain-English look at this politically charged topic, cutting away the hype and presenting the facts clearly for you, free f...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2009, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199237289)
The dispute over genetically modified organisms has brought the US and the EU into conflict. This book examines the dynamic interactions of domestic law and politics, transnational networks, international regimes, and global markets, through a theor...Loe edasi...
