Adam Briggle

Ethics and Science (eBook, ePUB)

An Introduction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Who owns your genes? What does climate science imply for policy? Do corporations conduct honest research? Should we teach intelligent design? Humans are creating a new world through science. The kind of world we are creating will not simply be decided by expanding scientific knowledge, but will depend on views about good and bad, right and wrong. These visions, in turn, depend on critical thinking, cogent argument and informed judgement. In this book, Adam Briggle and Carl Mitcham help readers to cultivate these skills. They first introduce ethics and the normative structure of science and then consider the 'society of science' and its norms for the responsible conduct of research and the treatment of human and animal research subjects. Later chapters examine 'science in society' - exploring ethical issues at the interfaces of science, policy, religion, culture and technology. Each chapter features case studies and research questions to stimulate further reflection.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139793520
• Artikelnr.: 37854615

Autorenporträt

Adam Briggle is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas. He is the author of A Rich Bioethics (2010) and co-author of Ethics and Science: An Introduction (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction and overview
2. Ethical concepts and theories
3. Science and its norms
4. Research ethics I: misconduct and the responsible conduct of research
5. Research ethics II: science involving humans
6. Research ethics III: science involving animals
7. The science of ethics
8. Transition: from ethics to politics and policy
9. Science and politics I: policy for science
10. Science and politics II: science for policy
11. Science and ideational culture
12. Science applied: ethics and engineering
Appendix: influential ethics codes and declarations
Works cited
Index.