The Ethics of Technological Risk (Hardcover)

Foreword Yvo de Boer Acknowledgements Part I: Introduction 1. The Ethics of Technological Risk: Introduction and Overview 2. An Agenda for the Ethics of Risk Part II: Principles and Guidelines 3. A Plea for a Rich Conception of Risks 4. Requirements for the Social Acceptability of Risk Generating Technological Activities 5. Clinical Equipoise and the Assessment of Acceptable Therapeutic Risk 6. Acceptable Risk to Future Generations 7. The Ethical Assessment of Unpredictable Risks in the Use of Genetically Engineered Livestock for Biomedical Research Part III: Methodological Considerations 8. Ethics, Reasons, and Risk Analysis 9. Incommensurability: The Failure to Compare Risks 10. Welfare Judgments and Risk Part IV: Involving the Public 11. Risk As Feeling: Some Thoughts about Affect, Reason, Risk and Rationality 12. The Relation between Cognition and Affect in Moral Judgments about Risks 13. Risk and Public Imagination: Mediated Risk Perception as Imaginative Moral Judgment 14. Trust and Criteria for Proof of Risk: The Case of Mobile Phone Technology in the Netherlands Part V: Instruments for Democratization 15. Risk-Management through National Ethics Councils? 16. Ethical Responsibilities of Engineers in Design Processes: Risks, Regulative Frameworks and Societal Division of Labour Part VI: Conclusion 17. Governing Technological Risks Acronyms and Abbreviations References Index