Jessica Nihlén Fahlquist

Moral Responsibility and Risk in Society

Examples from Emerging Technologies, Public Health and Environment

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines concepts and notions of moral responsibility in relation to health risks, technological risks and environmental risks. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental ethics, bioethics, public health ethics, engineering ethics, philosophy of risk and moral philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9781138192904
• ISBN-10: 1138192902
• Artikelnr.: 54649595

Autorenporträt

Jessica Nihlén Fahlquist has a Ph.D. in philosophy and is a senior lecturer in biomedical ethics at the Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics at Uppsala University in Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Note on Permissions
Introduction: Moral Responsibility and Risk
PART 1: HOLDING AGENTS RESPONSIBLE FOR RISK
Introduction to part 1: Moral Responsibility - the Philosophical Discussion
1. Fairness and Efficacy in Responsibility Distributions
2. Backward-looking and Forward-looking Responsibility
3. Individual and Collective Responsibility
PART 2: TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR RISK
Introduction to part 2: Responsibility as a Virtue
4. Taking Responsibility for Technological Risk
5. Responsible Risk Communication
6. Children, Risk & Responsibility
Index