The ethics of technological risk / edited by Lotte Asveld and Sabine Roeser

Includes index

An agenda for the ethics of risk / Sven Ove Hansson -- A plea for a rich conception of risks / Carl Cranor -- Requirements for the social acceptability of risk-generating technological activities / Henk Zandvoort -- Clinical equipoise and the assessment of acceptable therapeutic risk / Duff Waring -- Acceptable risk to future generations / Marc D. Davidson -- The ethical assessment of unpredictable risks in the use of genetically engineered livestock for biomedical research / Arianna Ferrari -- Ethics, reasons and risk analysis / Douglas MacLean -- Incommensurability : the failure to compare risks / Nicolas Espinoza -- Welfare judgements and risk / Greg Bognar -- Risk as feeling : some thoughts about affect, reason, risk and rationality / Paul Slovic ... [et al.] -- The relation between cognition and affect in moral judgements about risks / Sabine Roeser -- Risk and public imagination : mediated risk perception as imaginative moral judgement / Mark Coeckelbergh -- Trust and criteria for proof of risk : the case of mobile phone technology in the Netherlands / Lotte Asveld -- Risk management through national ethics councils? / Gero Kellermann -- Ethical responsibilities of engineers in design processes : risks, regulative frameworks and societal division of labour / Anke van Gorp and Armin Grunwald -- Governing technological risks / Michael Baram