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Scientific Innovation, Philosophy, and Public Policy
Volume 13
Part 2
Part of Social Philosophy and Policy
- Editors:
- Ellen Frankel Paul, Bowling Green State University, Ohio
- Fred D. Miller, Jr, Bowling Green State University, Ohio
- Jeffrey Paul, Bowling Green State University, Ohio
- Date Published: June 1996
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521589949
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Recent and ongoing developments in science and technology - such as the prevention and treatment of disease through genetics and the development of increasingly sophisticated computer systems with wide-ranging applications - hold out the promise of vastly improving the quality of human life, but they can also raise serious ethical, legal, and public policy questions. The thirteen essays in this volume address these questions and related issues from a variety of perspectives. Written by prominent philosophers, economists, and legal theorists, these essays offer valuable insights into the nature of scientific innovation and its implications for our social policies and practices.
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- Date Published: June 1996
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521589949
- length: 343 pages
- dimensions: 227 x 152 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.45kg
- availability: Out of stock in print form with no current plan to reprint
Table of Contents
1. The human genome project: research tactics and economic strategies Alexander Rosenberg
2. Choosing who will be disabled: genetic intervention and the morality of inclusion Allen Buchanan
3. Germ-line genetic engineering and moral diversity: moral controversies in a post-Christian world H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr
4. Self-critical federal science? The ethics experiment within the US human genome project Eric T. Juengst
5. When politics drives science: Lysenko, Gore and US biotechnology policy Henry I. Miller
6. Biotechnology and the utilitarian argument for patents Michele Svatos
7. Property rights theory and the commons: the case of scientific research Robert P. Merges
8. Property rights and technological innovation Svetozar Pejovich
Medicine, animal experimentation and the moral problem of unfortunate humans R. G. Frey
9. A world of strong privacy: promises and perils of encryption David Friedman
10. Computer reliability and public policy: limits of knowledge of computer-based systems James H. Fetzer
11. Responsibility and decision making in the era of neural networks William Bechtel
12. Preposterism and its consequences Susan Haack.Editors
Ellen Frankel Paul, Bowling Green State University, Ohio
Fred D. Miller, Jr, Bowling Green State University, Ohio
Jeffrey Paul, Bowling Green State University, Ohio
Contributors
Alexander Rosenberg, Allen Buchanan, H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr, Eric T. Juengst, Henry I. Miller, Michele Svatos, Robert P. Merges, Svetozar Pejovich, R. G. Frey, David Friedman, James H. Fetzer, William Bechtel, Susan Haack
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