Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 696 Seiten, GB, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1193 g
Reihe: Justice Without Frontiers
Protecting Human Rights in the Age of Technology
Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 696 Seiten, GB, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1193 g
Reihe: Justice Without Frontiers
ISBN: 978-90-411-1098-5
Verlag: Wolters Kluwer
This work, an important bridge between the worlds of science and law, is one of a series, but may be purchased separately. It is one of the most detailed studies thus far on the interrelationship of science and technology with the growing discipline of human rights. Apart from general perspectives, it also deals specifically with the obligations of doctors, engineers, nuclear scientists, computer technologists, genetic engineers, genetic counsellors, mining technologists, and others.
No library of science, medicine, engineering or technology of any description should be without it, for it provides an irreducible minimum of human rights knowledge, without which these disciplines cannot function in the next century with due regard to their social and human rights implications.
Not all scientists will agree with all the author's views, but he poses them challengingly and brings into the open a number of major issues which can no longer be ignored.
The volume is a plea for an interdisciplinary and broad-based approach to scientific problems, scientific education, and continuing education of scientists. It places the scientific endeavour in its overall social and human rights context in a manner which neither students of science nor established scientists can ignore. With an approach which is both imaginative and practical, it explores the future of scientific endeavour in a humanistic perspective.
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Reflections; Sir Arthur Clarke. Preface to Volume 2. Part A: General Perspectives. 1. The Tension between Scientific Power and Democratic Principles. 2. The Tension beteen Scientific Power and Law. 3. The Tension between Scientific Power and Human Rights. 4. Legal Education for the Age of Technology: A Plea for an Interdisciplinary Perspective. 5. International Controls on Technology: The Gathering Momentum. 6. The Problem of Appropriate Technology. 7. The Problem of the Flow of Technological Information. 8. Some Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Technology and the Environment. 9. Some Illustrative Global Case Studies. Part B: Specific Problem Areas. 10. Computers. 11. Armaments. 12. Nuclear Weapons. 13. Nuclear Energy. 14. Genetic Engineering. 15. Medicine: A Case Study. 16. Mining Technology: A Case Study. 17. Some Orwellian Scenarios. Part C: Professional Ethics and Humanistic Perspectives. 18. Future Technology and the Scientific Ethic. 19. Doctors. 20. Microbiologists. 21. Engineers. 22. Nuclear Weapons Scientists. 23. Genetic Counsellors. 24. Towards More Humanistic Science: The Profile of a National Effort. 25. Agenda for Action. Appendix A: New Legal Institutions for a Science-Dominated Age: A Blueprint from the 1970s. Appendix B: Proposed UN Declaration of Scientific Responsibility in Relation to Nuclear Weaponry. Index
