Precaution and Ethics: Handling risks, uncertainties and knowledge gaps in the regulation of new biotechnologies

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Munthe, Christian,1962Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori,Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science (author)

Precaution and Ethics: Handling risks, uncertainties and knowledge gaps in the regulation of new biotechnologies

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Berne :Swiss Federal Office for Buildings and Publications and Logistics (FOBL),2017
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LIBRIS-ID:oai:gup.ub.gu.se/259658
ISBN:9783906211312
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This volume outlines and analyses ethical issues actualized by applying a precautionary approach to the regulation of new biotechnologies. It presents a novel way of categorizing and comparing biotechnologies from a precautionary standpoint. Based on this, it addresses underlying philosophical problems regarding the ethical assessment of decision-making under uncertainty and ignorance, and discusses how risks and possible benefits of such technologies should be balanced from an ethical standpoint. It argues on conceptual and ethical grounds for a technology neutral regulation as well as for a regulation that not only checks new technologies but also requires old, inferior ones to be phased out. It demonstrates how difficult ethical issues regarding the extent and ambition of precautionary policies need to be handled by such a regulation, and presents an overarching framework for doing so.

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER Industriell bioteknik Bioenergi hsv//swe
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY Industrial Biotechnology Bioenergy hsv//eng
LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER Annan lantbruksvetenskap Miljö- och naturvårdsvetenskap hsv//swe
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES Other Agricultural Sciences Environmental Sciences related to Agriculture and Land-use hsv//eng
NATURVETENSKAP Biologi Annan biologi hsv//swe
NATURAL SCIENCES Biological Sciences Other Biological Topics hsv//eng
TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER Industriell bioteknik Annan industriell bioteknik hsv//swe
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY Industrial Biotechnology Other Industrial Biotechnology hsv//eng
TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER Miljöbioteknik Annan miljöbioteknik hsv//swe
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY Environmental Biotechnology Other Environmental Biotechnology hsv//eng
LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER Bioteknologi med applikationer på växter och djur hsv//swe
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES Agricultural Biotechnology hsv//eng
TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER Miljöbioteknik hsv//swe
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY Environmental Biotechnology hsv//eng
HUMANIORA Filosofi, etik och religion Etik hsv//swe
HUMANITIES Philosophy, Ethics and Religion Ethics hsv//eng
TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER Industriell bioteknik Bioprocessteknik hsv//swe
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY Industrial Biotechnology Bioprocess Technology hsv//eng
HUMANIORA Filosofi, etik och religion Filosofi hsv//swe
HUMANITIES Philosophy, Ethics and Religion Philosophy hsv//eng
TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER Miljöbioteknik Bioteknisk etik hsv//swe
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY Environmental Biotechnology Bioethics hsv//eng
LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER Annan lantbruksvetenskap Övrig annan lantbruksvetenskap hsv//swe
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES Other Agricultural Sciences Other Agricultural Sciences not elsewhere specified hsv//eng
LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER Bioteknologi med applikationer på växter och djur Växtbioteknologi hsv//swe
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES Agricultural Biotechnology Plant Biotechnology hsv//eng
TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER Industriell bioteknik Biomaterial hsv//swe
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY Industrial Biotechnology Bio Materials hsv//eng
TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER Industriell bioteknik Biokemikalier hsv//swe
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY Industrial Biotechnology Biochemicals hsv//eng
NATURVETENSKAP Biologi Zoologi hsv//swe
NATURAL SCIENCES Biological Sciences Zoology hsv//eng
NATURVETENSKAP Biologi Biokemi och molekylärbiologi hsv//swe
NATURAL SCIENCES Biological Sciences Biochemistry and Molecular Biology hsv//eng
LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER Bioteknologi med applikationer på växter och djur Genetik och förädling inom lantbruksvetenskap hsv//swe
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES Agricultural Biotechnology Genetics and Breeding in Agricultural Sciences hsv//eng
bioethics
environmental ethics
applied ethics
values
risk management
uncertainty
precautionary principle
agriculture
genomics
breeding
nanotechnology
synthetic biology
farming
genetic modification
GMO
CRISPRcas9
gene editing
gene driving
geoengineering
bionanotechnology

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