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Keywords
- Ethical Issues
- biotechnology
- ethics
- human rights
- morality
- sustainability
About this book
Life sciences have huge controversial social implications. In doing experiments with animals, plants or humans the welfare of these living beings can be hampered; in communicating research results private and public interests can be harmed (patents!) or at least severely influenced; in being a member of a research group issues of human rights (like discriminatory behaviour) can become prominent; individual and collective forms of responsibility because of controversial types of research can become urgent.
Funding organizations can confront scientists and engineers with new ethical issues; the public at large or, as is the case with sustainability, future generations can challenge existing ways of doing research, and educating and teaching can confront scientists with new ethical issues.
In this book, resulting from an expert workshop at Wageningen University and Research Centre, European and American experts discuss topics and theories like the relationship between ethics, professional ethics and business ethics, the public responsibility of researchers and communicating, organizing, teaching and discussing ethical issues.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ethics for Life Scientists
Editors: Michiel Korthals, Robert J. Bogers
Series Title: Wageningen UR Frontis Series
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3178-6Published: 14 February 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3179-3Published: 15 August 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 219