The challenges posed by modern science and technology to ethics include the challenge of technicization. Technicization is a process that some contend infects and thereby corrupts ethics. To understand this claim requires an understanding of the...
The core idea of constructive technology assessment (CTA) is that the social problems surrounding technology can and must be addressed through the inclusion of a large diversity of actors in technological design and implementation processes, including...
Technology assessment (TA, German Technikfolgenabschätzung) is the study and evaluation of new technologies. It is based on the conviction that new developments within, and discoveries by, the scientific community are relevant for the world at large...
Jeff Taylor's first day on the job as Livingston Parish assessor is one he'd like to forget. When he succeeded Charles Abels in August 2001, lines backed out of his new office into the lobby. Word had it Taylor was going to take...
Health Technology Assessment (HTA) applies "rigorous, systematic methods of scientific inquiry to the evaluation and use of new or existing health care technologies."(f.1) It is not simply more research -- it is an integration and synthesis of research, or a bridge between research and...
Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday assailed a "culture of cronyism" in government as the Democratic front-runner vowed to streamline the federal bureaucracy and improve accountability.In a speech in early primary state New Hampshire, Clinton called for slashing 500,000 government contractors, potentially saving up...
Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday assailed a "culture of cronyism" in government as she vowed to streamline the federal bureaucracy and improve accountability.In a speech in this early primary state, Clinton called for slashing 500,000 government contractors, potentially saving up to $18 billion...
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