Science, Politics and Morality - Scientific Uncertainty and Decision Making (Hardcover, 1993 ed.)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Theory and Decision Library A:, 17
Release date:	December 1992
First published:	1993
Editors:	Rene Von Schomberg
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	236
Edition:	1993 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-7923-1997-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science
LSN:	0-7923-1997-4
Barcode:	9780792319979

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