Author : Deutsche Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft. Arbeitskreis Politik und Technik. Jahrestagung
Publisher :
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 30,47 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biotechnology
ISBN :
Author : J. Hansen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 14,70 MB
Release : 2010-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230277500
Providing a comparison the most important instances of public engagement with biotechnology in Europe in recent years, this book provides a theoretically reflected and empirically grounded study of the opportunities and obstacles for a thorough democratization of technological development through processes of public engagement.
Author : Dona Barirani
Publisher : Herbert Utz Verlag
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 22,16 MB
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Agricultural biotechnology
ISBN : 3831644438
More than any other technology it is biotechnology that intervenes deeply in the original substance of life, the DNA. Particularly agricultural biotechnology, including its production of gene-food, plays a fundamental role for any kind of life and, therefore, for human societies. In this context, the interrelating dimensions of technology, economy, and politics have to be considered for doing justice to the high complexity of this research field. Pursuing this aim, this work elaborates the contingent necessities of agricultural biotechnology. At different levels of abstraction and complexity, occurrences are decoded as interplays of various different factors while reductionism and mono-causal explanations are fundamentally denied. This book is a comprehensive study of modern agricultural biotechnology that links current developments to relevant trajectories of past times. The author addresses political scientists, decision-makers and also natural scientists that are engaged in this field.
Author : Jakob Edler
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 26,86 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781781957790
This collection analyses and comments on the development of the ERA, which seeks to co-ordinate national research and advance European wide projects. The contributors include leading scholars of European integration and technology policy and high-level administrators. They discuss the potential impacts, benefits and limits to research and innovation policy within Europe both in the short and long term. Moreover, the debate about ERA is placed firmly in the context of the overall changes at the European level.
Author : Joseph Murphy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 14,2 MB
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 113419093X
This key text analyzes the EU-US conflict over GMOs and uses it to explore the governance of new technology. Although a lot has been written about the subject, this book discusses aspects of the case that are rarely, if ever, reported and examined.
Author : Paul Pechan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 21,60 MB
Release : 2005-11-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3540271368
Delivers the state-of-the-art facts in order to empower the public to make knowledge-based decisions about plant biotechnology and GM crops and GM food, in particular. Discusses the hot topics of the present debate in a neutral manner and can serve as a personal reference book for the interested public, for decision makers, and managers of consumer organizations.
Author : Philippe Goujon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 50,22 MB
Release : 2007-11-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0387723811
This volume honors the professional life of Jacques Berleur. He is known for his extensive work within the IFIP community to expose the nature of the ethical dilemmas of a society increasingly reliant on complex ICT infrastructures, to raise awareness of the social challenges this poses, and to influence action compatible with the ethical values of western democracy.
Author : Heiko Hausendorf
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 34,98 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027227098
Citizenship talk refers to various types of discourse initiated to make citizens take part in politically and socially contested decision-making processes ('citizen participation'). 'Citizenship' has, accordingly, become one of the dazzling key words whenever the democratic deficit of modern societies is moaned about. Asking for citizenship to be conceived of as a communicative achievement, the present book shows that sociolinguistics and pragmatics can essentially contribute to this interdisciplinary up-to-date issue of research: the volume offers a theoretically innovative concept of communicated citizenship and it presents a set of methodological approaches suited to deal with this concept at an empirical level (including contributions from Conversation Analysis, Critical Discourse Analysis, Social Positioning Theory, Speech Act Theory and Ethnography). Furthermore, concrete data and empirical analyses are provided which take up the case of decision-making processes around the application of modern 'green' biotechnology ('GMO field trials'). The volume thus illustrates the kind of findings and results that can be expected from this new and promising approach towards citizenship talk.
Author : Elizabeth Charlotte Fisher
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 21,62 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1847201679
This challenging book takes a broad and thought-provoking look at the precautionary principle and its implementation, or potential implementation, in a number of fields. In particular, the essays within the book explore the challenges faced by public decision-making processes when applying the precautionary principle, including its role in risk management and risk assessment. Frameworks for improved decision making are considered, followed by a detailed analysis of prospective applications of the precautionary principle in a number of emerging fields including: nanotechnology, climate change.
Author : Helen Kohlen
Publisher : Campus Verlag
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 29,11 MB
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 3593405393
Ethikkomitees sind neu an deutschen Kliniken. Mit Blick auf die US-amerikanische Geschichte dieser Einrichtung beleuchtet Helen Kohlen deren Praxis und den Nutzen im medizinischen und pflegerischen Feld. Wem dienen die Beratungsgremien und wessen Stimme wird bei der Definition ethischer Konflikte gehört? Sie erkennt, dass die Logik und Sprache des Managements zunehmend die klinische Ethik prägt und dass fürsorgliche Praxis im Klinikalltag keine Selbstverständlichkeit mehr ist. Nachwuchspreis des Instituts für Mensch, Ethik und Wissenschaft (IMEW)
