Ethics and emerging technologies

Preface

Structure and User's Guide

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I: GENERAL REFLECTION ON ETHICS AND TECHNOLOGY

1. Section Overview

2. Technology: Practice and Culture; A. Pacey

3. Technology and Responsibility: Reflections on the New Tasks of Ethics; H. Jonas

4. Technologies as Forms of Life; L. Winner

PART II: REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES

5. Section Overview

6. Reproductive Technologies: Ethical Debates; L. Frith

7. Preventing a Brave New World; L. Kass

8. The Ethics of Sex Selection; I. de Melo-Martin

9. Selecting Children: The Ethics of Reproductive Genetic Engineering; M. Liao

PART III: BIOMEDICAL AND THERAPEUTIC TECHNOLOGIES

10. Section Overview

11. Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research; I. de Melo-Martin and M. Gillis

12. Crossing Species Boundaries; J. Robert and F. Baylis

13. The Coming Era of Nanomedicine; F. Allhoff

14. Psychopharmacology and Functional Neurosurgery: Manipulating Memory, Thought, and Mood; W. Glannon

15. Incentivizing Access and Innovation for Essential Medicines: A Survey of the Problem and Proposed Solutions; M. Ravvin

PART IV: HUMAN ENHANCEMENT TECHNOLOGIES

16. Section Overview

17. Beyond Therapy; United States President's Council on Bioethics

18. Why I Want to be a Posthuman When I Grow Up; N. Bostrom

19. Moral Enhancement; T. Douglas

20. Enhancing Justice; T. Garcia and R. Sandler

PART V: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

21. Section Overview

22. Bigger Monster, Weaker Chains: The Growth of An American Surveillance Society; J. Stanley and B. Steinhardt

23. Nanotechnology and Privacy: The Instructive Case of RFID; J. Van den Hoven

24. Intellectual Property: Legal and Moral Challenges of Online File Sharing; R. Spinello

25. Virtual Reality and Computer Simulation; P. Brey

26. The Digital Divide; K. Himma and Maria Bottis

PART VI: ROBOTICS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

27. Section Overview

28. Ethics, War, and Robots; P. Lin, K. Abney and G. Bekey

29. Ethics, Law, and Governance in the Development of Robots; W. Wallach

30. What to do About Artificial Consciousness; J. Basl

31. The Singularity is Near; R. Kurzweil

PART VII: ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY

32. Section Overview

33. Risk, Precaution, and Nanotechnology; K. Elliott

34. Avoiding Catastrophic Climate Change: Why Technological Innovation is Necessary but Not Sufficient; P. Cafaro

35. Ethical Anxieties about Geoengineering; C. Hamilton

36. Ecosystems Unbound: Ethical Questions for an Interventionist Ecology; B. Minteer and J. Collins

PART VIII: AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY

37. Section Overview

38. Ethics and Genetically Modified Foods; G. Comstock

39. Women and the Gendered Politics of Food; V. Shiva

40. The Ethics of Agricultural Animal Biotechnology; R. Streiffer and J. Basl

41. Artificial Meat; P. Thompson

PART IX: SYNTHETIC GENOMICS AND ARTIFICIAL LIFE

42. Section Overview

43. Synthetic Biology, Biosecurity, and Biosafety; M. Garfinkle and L. Knowles

44. Evolution and the Deep Past: Intrinsic Responses to Synthetic Biology; C. Preston

45. Social and Ethical Implications of Creating Artificial Cells; M.A. Bedau and M. Triant

Index.