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Moral Responsibility and Risk in Society - Examples from Emerging Technologies, Public Health and Environment (Paperback)
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Moral Responsibility and Risk in Society - Examples from Emerging Technologies, Public Health and Environment (Paperback)
Series: Earthscan Risk in Society
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Risks, including health and technological, attract a lot of
attention in modern societies, from individuals as well as
policy-makers. Human beings have always had to deal with dangers,
but contemporary societies conceptualise these dangers as risks,
indicating that they are to some extent controllable and
calculable. Conceiving of dangers in this way implies a need to
analyse how we hold people responsible for risks and how we can and
should take responsibility for risks. Moral Responsibility and Risk
in Society combines philosophical discussion of different concepts
and notions of responsibility with context-specific applications in
the areas of health, technology and environment. The book consists
of two parts addressing two crucial aspects of risks and
responsibility: holding agents responsible, i.e. ascribing and
distributing responsibility for risks, and taking responsibility
for risk. More specifically, the book discusses the values of
fairness and efficacy in responsibility distributions and makes
distinctions between backward-looking and forward-looking
responsibility as well as individual and collective responsibility.
Additionally, it analyses what it means to take responsibility for
technological risks, conceptualising this kind of responsibility as
a virtue, and furthermore, explores the notion of responsible risk
communication and the implications for adult-child relationships.
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of
environmental ethics, bioethics, public health ethics, engineering
ethics, philosophy of risk and moral philosophy.
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