| List of Figures and Tables |
| | vii | |
| | ix | |
| Foreword | | xi | |
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| Acknowledgements | | xiii | |
| List of Acronyms and Abbreviations |
| | xiv | |
| | 1 | |
| The Ethics of Technological Risk: Introduction and Overview |
| | 3 | |
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| An Agenda for the Ethics of Risk |
| | 11 | |
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| Part II Principles and Guidelines |
| | 25 | |
| A Plea for a Rich Conception of Risks |
| | 27 | |
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| Requirements for the Social Acceptability of Risk-Generating Technological Activities |
| | 40 | |
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| Clinical Equipoise and the Assessment of Acceptable Therapeutic Risk |
| | 55 | |
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| Acceptable Risk to Future Generations |
| | 77 | |
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| The Ethical Assessment of Unpredictable Risks in the Use of Genetically Engineered Livestock for Biomedical Research |
| | 92 | |
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| Part III Methodological Considerations |
| | 113 | |
| Ethics, Reasons and Risk Analysis |
| | 115 | |
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| Incommensurability: The Failure to Compare Risks |
| | 128 | |
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| Welfare Judgements and Risk |
| | 144 | |
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| Part IV Involving the Public |
| | 161 | |
| Risk as Feeling: Some Thoughts about Affect, Reason, Risk and Rationality |
| | 163 | |
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| The Relation between Cognition and Affect in Moral Judgements about Risks |
| | 182 | |
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| Risk and Public Imagination: Mediated Risk Perception as Imaginative Moral Judgement |
| | 202 | |
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| Trust and Criteria for Proof of Risk: The Case of Mobile Phone Technology in the Netherlands |
| | 220 | |
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| Part V Instruments for Democratization |
| | 235 | |
| Risk Management through National Ethics Councils? |
| | 237 | |
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| Ethical Responsibilities of Engineers in Design Processes: Risks, Regulative Frameworks and Societal Division of Labour |
| | 252 | |
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| | 269 | |
| Governing Technological Risks |
| | 271 | |
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| Index | | 283 | |
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