Ethics on the Laboratory Floor

This volume unites ethicists and social scientists to contribute to a new type of technology ethics. Cooperation with scientists makes it possible to anticipate ethical questions and problems at a stage when the technology can still be changed.

Autorentext
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France Armin Grunwald, Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis, Karlsruhe, Germany Marianne Boenink, University of Twente, Netherlands Peter-Paul Verbeek, University of Twente, Netherlands Xavier Guchet, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France Fern Wickson, GenØk Centre for Biosafety in Tromsø and Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway Federica Lucivero, Tilburg Institute for Law Technology and Society, Netherlands Lotte Krabbenborg, IQ healthcare, Netherlands Arie Rip, University of Twente, Netherlands Alfred Nordmann, Darmstadt Technical University, Germany

Inhalt
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; Enhancing Ethical Reflection in the Laboratory: How Soft Impacts Require Tough Thinking; Simone Van Der Burg and Tsjalling Swierstra 1. Which Focus for an Ethics in Nanotechnology Laboratories?; Bernadette Bensaude Vincent 2. Responsible Research and Development: Roles of Ethicists on the Lab Floor; Armin Grunwald 3. The Multiple Practices of Doing 'Ethics in the Lab' - A Mid-Level Perspective; Marianne Boenink 4. Technology Design as Experimental Ethics; Peter-Paul Verbeek 5. Co-Shaping the Life Story of a Technology; From Technological Ancestry to Visions of the Future; Simone Van Der Burg 6. Ethics on the Basis of Technological Choices; Xavier Guchet 7. Environmental Ethics in an Ecotoxicology Laboratory; Fern Wickson 8. The Promises of Emerging Diagnostics: From Scientists' Visions to the Lab Bench and Back; Federica Lucivero 9. Dramatic Rehearsal on the Societal Embedding of the Lithium Chip; Lotte Krabbenborg 10. Pervasive Normativity and Emerging Technologies; Arie Rip 11. Underdetermination and Overconfidence Constructivism, Design Thinking, and the Ethics Politics of Research; Alfred Nordmann Index