Ethics and Emerging Technologies

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction: Technology and Ethics....Pages 1-23
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
Technology: Practice and Culture....Pages 27-36
Technology and Responsibility: Reflections on the New Tasks of Ethics....Pages 37-47
Technologies as Forms of Life....Pages 48-60
Front Matter....Pages 61-62
Reproductive Technologies: Ethical Debates....Pages 63-75
Preventing a Brave New World....Pages 76-89
The Ethics of Sex Selection....Pages 90-103
Selecting Children: The Ethics of Reproductive Genetic Engineering....Pages 104-119
Front Matter....Pages 121-122
Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research: Embryos and Beyond....Pages 123-138
Crossing Species Boundaries....Pages 139-154
The Coming Era of Nanomedicine....Pages 155-166
Psychopharmacology and Functional Neurosurgery: Manipulating Memory, Thought, and Mood....Pages 167-179
Incentivizing Access and Innovation for Essential Medicines: A Survey of the Problem and Proposed Solutions....Pages 180-195
Front Matter....Pages 197-198
“Beyond Therapy”....Pages 199-217
Why I Want to Be a Posthuman When I Grow Up....Pages 218-234
Moral Enhancement....Pages 235-251
Enhancing Justice?....Pages 252-266
Front Matter....Pages 267-268
Bigger Monster, Weaker Chains: The Growth of an American Surveillance Society....Pages 269-284
Nanotechnology and Privacy: The Instructive Case of RFID....Pages 285-299
Intellectual Property: Legal and Moral Challenges of Online File Sharing....Pages 300-314
Front Matter....Pages 267-268
Virtual Reality and Computer Simulation....Pages 315-332
The Digital Divide: Information Technologies and the Obligation to Alleviate Poverty....Pages 333-346
Front Matter....Pages 347-348
Ethics, War, and Robots....Pages 349-362
Ethics, Law, and Governance in the Development of Robots....Pages 363-379
What to Do about Artificial Consciousness....Pages 380-392
The Singularity is Near....Pages 393-406
Front Matter....Pages 407-408
Risk, Precaution, and Nanotechnology....Pages 409-423
Avoiding Catastrophic Climate Change: Why Technological Innovation is Necessary but not Sufficient....Pages 424-438
Ethical Anxieties about Geoengineering....Pages 439-455
Ecosystems Unbound: Ethical Questions for an Interventionist Ecology....Pages 456-469
Front Matter....Pages 471-472
Ethics and Genetically Modified Foods....Pages 473-485
Women and the Gendered Politics of Food....Pages 486-500
The Ethics of Agricultural Animal Biotechnology....Pages 501-515
Artificial Meat....Pages 516-530
Front Matter....Pages 531-532
Synthetic Biology, Biosecurity, and Biosafety....Pages 533-547
Evolution and the Deep Past: Intrinsic Responses to Synthetic Biology....Pages 548-561
Social and Ethical Implications of Creating Artificial Cells....Pages 562-574
Back Matter....Pages 575-583