The ethics of invention : technology and the human future / Sheila Jasanoff.

By: Jasanoff, Sheila [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Norton global ethics series: Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]Edition: First editionDescription: x, 306 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780393078992; 039307899XSubject(s): Inventions -- Moral and ethical aspects | Technology -- Moral and ethical aspects | Technologie | Erfindung | Ethik | Inventions -- ethics | Technology -- ethicsDDC classification: 174/.96 LOC classification: T14 | .J34 2016
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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.
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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.

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