To Assess Technologies, Bioethicists Must Take Off Their Blinkers

Assessing the safety of biomedical technologies is an essential aspect of any sound ethical assessment. It is, however, not sufficient. Technologies do significantly more than what they are designed to accomplish. Bioethicists should pay more attention to the many ways in which technologies transfor...

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Main Author: Melo-Martín, Inmaculada de 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley 2022
In: The Hastings Center report
Year: 2022, Volume: 52, Issue: 5, Pages: 3
Further subjects:B technological assessment
B Bioethics
B values in technologies
B means-ends analysis
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Summary:Assessing the safety of biomedical technologies is an essential aspect of any sound ethical assessment. It is, however, not sufficient. Technologies do significantly more than what they are designed to accomplish. Bioethicists should pay more attention to the many ways in which technologies transform our world and ourselves.
ISSN:1552-146X
Contains:Enthalten in: Hastings Center, The Hastings Center report
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1002/hast.1413