Ethics on the Laboratory Floor

by Simone van der Burg (Editor), Simon Blatt (Editor)

Overview

This volume unites ethicists and social scientists to contribute to a new type of technology ethics. Cooperation with scientists makes it possible to anticipate ethical questions and problems at a stage when the technology can still be changed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137002921
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	06/13/2013
Edition description:	2013
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Armin Grunwald, Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis, Karlsruhe, Germany
Marianne Boenink, University of Twente, Netherlands
Peter-Paul Verbeek, University of Twente, Netherlands
Xavier Guchet, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Fern Wickson, GenØk Centre for Biosafety in Tromsø and Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway
Federica Lucivero, Tilburg Institute for Law Technology and Society, Netherlands
Lotte Krabbenborg, IQ healthcare, Netherlands
Arie Rip, University of Twente, Netherlands
Alfred Nordmann, Darmstadt Technical University, Germany

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; Enhancing Ethical Reflection in the Laboratory: How Soft Impacts Require Tough Thinking; Simone Van Der Burg and Tsjalling Swierstra 1. Which Focus for an Ethics in Nanotechnology Laboratories?; Bernadette Bensaude Vincent 2. Responsible Research and Development: Roles of Ethicists on the Lab Floor; Armin Grunwald 3. The Multiple Practices of Doing 'Ethics in the Lab' - A Mid-Level Perspective; Marianne Boenink 4. Technology Design as Experimental Ethics; Peter-Paul Verbeek 5. Co-Shaping the Life Story of a Technology; From Technological Ancestry to Visions of the Future; Simone Van Der Burg 6. Ethics on the Basis of Technological Choices; Xavier Guchet 7. Environmental Ethics in an Ecotoxicology Laboratory; Fern Wickson 8. The Promises of Emerging Diagnostics: From Scientists' Visions to the Lab Bench and Back; Federica Lucivero 9. Dramatic Rehearsal on the Societal Embedding of the Lithium Chip; Lotte Krabbenborg 10. Pervasive Normativity and Emerging Technologies; Arie Rip 11. Underdetermination and Overconfidence – Constructivism, Design Thinking, and the Ethics Politics of Research; Alfred Nordmann Index

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