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Jasanoff, Sheila,

The ethics of invention : technology and the human future / Sheila Jasanoff. - First edition. - x, 306 pages ; 22 cm. - The Norton global ethics series . - Norton global ethics series. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The power of technology -- Risk and responsibility -- The ethical anatomy of disasters -- Remaking nature -- Tinkering with humans -- Information's wild frontiers -- Whose knowledge, whose property? -- Reclaiming the future -- Invention for the people.

"A professor of science and technology studies at Harvard Kennedy School candidly documents society's embrace of technological solutions and technology's complex interplay with ethics and human rights, challenging readers to build a future in which we work together to manage the risks and promises of technology, "--NoveList.

ISBN: 9780393078992 039307899X

Standard No.: 40026553108

LCCN: 2016014456

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Inventions--Moral and ethical aspects.
Technology--Moral and ethical aspects.
Technologie
Erfindung
Ethik
Inventions--ethics.
Technology--ethics.

LC Class. No.: T14 / .J34 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 174/.96

National Library of Medicine Call No.: T14 / .J34 2016