Overview
- First book-length discussion of early engagement with new technologies
- Comprehensive overview of main approaches in early engagement
- Attention for underlying theoretical issues like interdisciplinary cooperation (trading zones), normativity, and the relation to tradition of laboratory studies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology (POET, volume 16)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Approaches to Early Engagement
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Reflections
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Conclusions
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Keywords
- Constructive technology assessment
- ELSI new technologies
- ELSI research new technologies
- Early engagement technology
- Embedded ethics
- Ethics biotechnology
- Ethics nanotechnology
- Ethics new technologies
- Ethics synthetic biology
- Laboratory studies ethics
- Legal new technologies
- Midstream modulation
- Network Approach
- R&D policy ethics
- Responsible innovation
- Society biotechnology
- Society nanotechnology
- Society new technologies
- Society synthetic biology
- Value sensitive design
- ethical parallel research
- humanities medicine technology
- main approaches in early engagement
- moral imagination technology
- normativity and the relation to tradition of laboratory studies
- technology moral scenarios
- trading zones
About this book
Despite the topic’s urgency and centrality, this is the first edited volume to offer a comprehensive assessment of the varying approaches to early engagement with new technologies, including nanotechnology, synthetic biology, biotechnology and ICT. Covering five main approaches to early engagement—constructive technology assessment (CTA), value-sensitive design (VSD), midstream modulation (MM), the network approach for moral evaluation, and political technology assessment—the book will be a pivotal text in the rapidly developing research field of ELSI, which explores the ethical, legal, and social implications of new technologies.
Featuring leading scholars who discuss each early engagement approach in turn, the chapters cover both theory and applications, and include evaluative assessments of specific instances of early adoption of technologies. Further contributions focus on theoretical issues relevant to all approaches, including interdisciplinary cooperation, normativity and intervention, and political and public relevance. The publication has added profile due to the requirement of multi-billion-dollar research programs in the US and Europe to engage in ELSI research alongside that of the technical development itself, even in the early stages. Its comprehensive scrutiny of the core factors in early engagement will ensure a readership of policy makers as well as scientists and engineers.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Early engagement and new technologies: Opening up the laboratory
Editors: Neelke Doorn, Daan Schuurbiers, Ibo van de Poel, Michael E. Gorman
Series Title: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7844-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7843-6Published: 20 February 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0008-3Published: 03 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7844-3Published: 06 February 2014
Series ISSN: 1879-7202
Series E-ISSN: 1879-7210
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 251
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Philosophy of Technology, R & D/Technology Policy, Ethics