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9780792319979: Science, Politics, and Morality: Scientific Uncertainty and Decision Making: 17
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ISBN 10: 0792319974 ISBN 13: 9780792319979
Casa editrice: Kluwer Academic Pub, 1992

Sinossi

Current environmental problems and technological risks are a challenge for a new institutional arrangement of the value spheres of Science, Politics and Morality. Distinguished authors from different European countries and America provide a cross-disciplinary perspective on the problems of political decision making under the conditions of scientific uncertainty. cases from biotechnology and the environmental sciences are discussed.
The papers collected for this volume address the following themes: (i) controversies about risks and political decision making; (ii) concepts of science for policy; (iii) the use of social science in the policy making process; (iv) ethical problems with developments in science and technology; (v) public and state interests in the development and control of technology.

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Contenuti

Introduction; Part I: Controversies about Risks and Policy Implications: Controversies and Political Decision Making; Controversies about Risks and their Relation to Different Paradigms in Biological Research; Probabilistic Uncertainty and Technological Risks; Part II: Concepts of Science for Policy: A New Branch of Science, Inc.; The Emergence of Post-Normal Science; Part III: The Use of Social Science in the Policy Making Process: Argumentation and Power in Evaluation-Research and in Its Utilization in the Policy Making Process; Part IV: Ethical Problems with Developments in Science and Technology: Scientific Knowledge, Discourse Ethics, and Consensus Formation on Public Issues; The Argument about a New Paradigm for Health Research; AIDS and Human Rights: A Societal Choice; Part V: Public and State Interests in the Development and Control of Technology: Biotechnology and Social Perception; Scientific Controversies in Food Biotechnology; Index.

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Editore
Kluwer Academic Pub
Data di pubblicazione
1992
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0792319974
ISBN 13 
9780792319979
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
235
Redattore
Schomberg Rene Von
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9789048142118: Science, Politics and Morality: Scientific Uncertainty and Decision Making: 17

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ISBN 10:  9048142113 ISBN 13:  9789048142118
Casa editrice: Springer, 2010
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