Moral Responsibility and Risk in Society - Couverture souple

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Nihlén Fahlquist, Jessica

 
9780367586065: Moral Responsibility and Risk in Society
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ISBN 10 : 0367586061 ISBN 13 : 9780367586065
Editeur : Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

Risks, including health and technological, attract a lot of attention in modern societies, from individuals as well as policy-makers. Human beings have always had to deal with dangers, but contemporary societies conceptualise these dangers as risks, indicating that they are to some extent controllable and calculable. Conceiving of dangers in this way implies a need to analyse how we hold people responsible for risks and how we can and should take responsibility for risks.

Moral Responsibility and Risk in Society combines philosophical discussion of different concepts and notions of responsibility with context-specific applications in the areas of health, technology and environment. The book consists of two parts addressing two crucial aspects of risks and responsibility: holding agents responsible, i.e. ascribing and distributing responsibility for risks, and taking responsibility for risk. More specifically, the book discusses the values of fairness and efficacy in responsibility distributions and makes distinctions between backward-looking and forward-looking responsibility as well as individual and collective responsibility. Additionally, it analyses what it means to take responsibility for technological risks, conceptualising this kind of responsibility as a virtue, and furthermore, explores the notion of responsible risk communication and the implications for adult-child relationships.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental ethics, bioethics, public health ethics, engineering ethics, philosophy of risk and moral philosophy.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jessica Nihlén Fahlquist has a Ph.D. in philosophy and is a senior lecturer in biomedical ethics at the Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics at Uppsala University in Sweden.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0367586061
ISBN 13 
9780367586065
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
200
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1138192902 ISBN 13 :  9781138192904
Editeur : Routledge, 2018
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