The Ethics of Technological Risk

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