Medical Technology Assessment and Ethics: Ambivalent Relations

The current model of technology assessment treats ethics itself as just another problem-solving technology. Ethics should resist this model to play a more critical role in technology assessment by better understanding the complex relationship between society, medicine, and technology—and by recastin...

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Main Author: ten Have, Henk A.M.J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 1995
In: The Hastings Center report
Year: 1995, Volume: 25, Issue: 5, Pages: 13-19
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Summary:The current model of technology assessment treats ethics itself as just another problem-solving technology. Ethics should resist this model to play a more critical role in technology assessment by better understanding the complex relationship between society, medicine, and technology—and by recasting how problems are defined.
ISSN:1552-146X
Contains:Enthalten in: Hastings Center, The Hastings Center report
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/3562789