All ebooks in the collection "Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment" - Springer

Synthetic Biology Analysed

Margret Engelhard

Synthetic biology is a dynamic, young, ambitious, attractive, and heterogeneous scientific discipline. It is constantly developing and changing, which makes societal evaluation of this emerging new science a challenging task, prone to misunderstandings.Synthetic biology...

Ambivalences of Creating Life

Margret Engelhard , Kristin Hagen , Georg Toepfer

"Synthetic biology" is the label of a new technoscientific field with many different facets and agendas. One common aim is to "create life", primarily by using engineering principles to design and modify biological systems for human use. In a wider context, the topic...

Interdisciplinary Research and Trans-disciplinary Validity Claims

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Interdisciplinarity has seemingly become a paradigm for modern and meaningful research. Clearly, the interdisciplinary modus of deliberation enables to unfold relevant but quite different disciplinary perspectives to the reflection of broader scientific questions or...

Intervening in the Brain

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The Europäische Akademie is concerned with the study of the consequences of scientific and technological advance both for the individual and for society at large as well as for the natural environment. One important pillar of its work is to assess the consequences of...

Business Ethics of Innovation

Gerd Hanekamp

Firms that operate in a market economy often depend upon innovations in order to achieve competitive advantages that sustainably secure their survival. Business ethics is thus largely concerned with questions about the decisional freedoms involved in innovation...

Nanotechnology

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Since nanotechnology is considered a key for the 21st century, its promises have been assessed by various scientific communities. By meeting at the nanoscale, various disciplines, from physics via chemistry to biology, from engineering to medicine, contribute...

Enabling Social Europe

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‘Enabling Social Europe’ examines how the paradigm of the ‘enabling welfare state’ might offer a new perspective for European social policy in the decades to come. The ‘enabling’ concept is perceived as going beyond that of mere ‘activation’, thus also embracing...

Bioethics in a Small World

R.E. Ashcroft , Felix Thiele

Konstruktive Ethik

Carl Friedrich Gethmann

Das Buch bietet einen systematischen Gesamtentwurf der Allgemeinen Ethik und damit für den interessierten Leser einen Zugang zu den wichtigsten Fragestellungen der Disziplin Ethik. Dazu werden im Anschluß an eine systematische und historische Einleitung...

Langfristiges Planen

Georg Kamp

Das Projekt entwickelt einheitliche methodologische Grundlagen für eine langfristige Planung, deren Umsetzung die Nachhaltigkeit des individuellen wie des gesellschaftlichen Handelns möglichst verlässlich sichert.Die Arbeitsplanung folgt dem bewährten...

Grundbegriffe der grünen Gentechnik

Susanne Hiekel

In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird nicht versucht, einen solchen Rechtfertigungsdiskurs (fiktiv) zu führen, sondern es werden Argumentationsgrundlagen angeboten. Es ist davon auszugehen dass, bevor man einen normativen Diskurs angeht, zunächst die begrifflichen...