Overview
- One of the first books to explore the role of professional codes in shaping the ethical use of emerging technologies
- Provides case studies from a range of professions and fields including engineering, medicine, science and social science
- Bringing together a group of top scholars investigating how ethics generally precedes legal regulation
Part of the book series: The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology (ELTE, volume 23)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part II
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Part III
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About this book
This book investigates how ethics generally precedes legal regulation, and looks at how changes in codes of ethics represent an unparalleled window into the research, innovation, and emerging technologies they seek to regulate. It provides case studies from the fields of engineering, science, medicine and social science showing how professional codes of ethics often predate regulation and help shape the ethical use of emerging technologies and professional practice. Changes in professional ethics are the crystallization of ongoing conversation in scientific and professional fields about how justice, privacy, safety and human rights should be realized in practice where the law is currently silent. This book is a significant addition to this area of practical and professional ethics and is of particular interest to practitioners, scholars, and students interested in the areas of practical and applied ethics.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
​Elisabeth Hildt is the director of the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions and Professor of Philosophy at Illinois Institute of Technology. After having completed her studies in biochemistry, Elisabeth Hildt became a fellow of the post-graduate program Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities at the University of Tübingen, where she did her doctorate writing a thesis on personal identity issues in neural grafting. Afterwards, she was the scientific coordinator of the interdisciplinary project European Network for Biomedical Ethics. After several years of post-doctoral experience at the University of Munich she was an assistant professor at the Chair for Ethics in the Life Sciences at the University of Tübingen. From 2008 to summer 2014, Elisabeth Hildt was the head of the Research Group on Neuroethics/Neurophilosophy at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Mainz.Michael Davis is Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions and Professor of Philosophy, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. Before coming to IIT in 1986, he taught at Case-Western Reserve, Illinois State, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. For 1985-86, he held a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship. Davis has published more than 190 articles (and chapters) and authored seven books: To Make the Punishment Fit the Crime (Westview, 1992); Justice in the Shadow of Death (Rowman & Littlefield, 1996); Thinking Like an Engineer (Oxford, 1998); Ethics and the University (Routledge, 1999); Profession, Code, and Ethics (Ashgate, 2002); Actual Social Contract and Political Obligation (Mellen, 2002); and Code Writing: How Software Engineering Became a Profession (Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, 2007). He has also edited or co-edited five other books: Ethics and the Legal Professions (Prometheus, 1986) and a second edition (Prometheus, 2009); AIDS: Crisis in Professional Ethics (Temple, 1994); and Conflict of Interest in the Professions (Oxford, 2001) and Engineering Ethics (Ashgate, 2005).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Codes of Ethics and Ethical Guidelines
Book Subtitle: Emerging Technologies, Changing Fields
Editors: Kelly Laas, Michael Davis, Elisabeth Hildt
Series Title: The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86201-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86200-8Published: 04 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86203-9Published: 05 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-86201-5Published: 03 January 2022
Series ISSN: 1875-0044
Series E-ISSN: 1875-0036
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 258
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Engineering Ethics, Science and Technology Studies, R & D/Technology Policy