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Fundamentals of ethics for scientists and engineers / (Record no. 386)

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Classification number 174.95
Edition number 21
Item number S.E.F
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Seebauer, Edmund Gerard.
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Title Fundamentals of ethics for scientists and engineers /
Statement of responsibility, etc Edmund G. Seebauer, Robert L. Barry.
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Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Oxford University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2001.
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Extent xvi, 269 pages. ;
Dimensions 24 cm.
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Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Unit I. Foundational Principles --<br/>1. Approaching the Subject of Ehtics --<br/>1. An example --<br/>2. The importance of ethics in science and engineering --<br/>3. Managing ethical discussion --<br/>4. Philosophy, religion, and ethics --<br/>5. The existence of right and wrong --<br/>6. The subject of moral analysis --<br/>7. The role of codes of ethics --<br/>8. Real-life Case: Destruction of the Spaceship (Challenger) --<br/>2. The Person and the Virtues --<br/>1. Developing a model for the person --<br/>2. Components of the psyche --<br/>3. Limitations of the model --<br/>4. Habits and morals --<br/>5. The four main virtues --<br/>6. An example --<br/>7. A Real-life Case --<br/>3. Analyzing Exterior Acts: Some First Steps --<br/>1. Ethics as a craft --<br/>2. Disinguishing exterior and interior morality --<br/>3. Beginning case analysis --<br/>4. Event trees --<br/>5. A Real-life Case: Dow Corning Corp. and Breast Implant --<br/>4. Analyzing Exterior Acts: Some First Steps --<br/>1. Describing intention --<br/>2. The importance of intention --<br/>3. Effort and virtues --<br/>4. The role of benevolence --<br/>5. A Real-life Case: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment --<br/>6. Summary of Unit 1 --<br/>7. Some Words of Caution --<br/>Unit 2. Resolving Ethical Conflicts --<br/>5. Toward a Hierarchy of Moral Values --<br/>1. On selecting principles and methods --<br/>2. Hierarchies of values: moral and nonmoral --<br/>3. Linedrawing --<br/>4. Mathematical analogies --<br/>5. Ranking the virtues --<br/>6. A Real-life Case: Scientific Tests using Animals --<br/>6. Starting Moral Judgments: Evaluating Exterior Acts --<br/>1. A mathematical analogy --<br/>2. An example --<br/>3. A Real-life Case: Chemical Disaster at Bhopal --<br/>7. Completing Moral Judgments: the Decisive Role of Intention --<br/>1. Evaluating interior goodness --<br/>2. An example --<br/>3. Balancing interior and exterior goodness --<br/>4. The "Solomon problem" --<br/>5. Cooperating in the evil of others --<br/>6. A Real-lfe Case: The Problem of Performance Evaluation --<br/>Grade Inflation --<br/>8. Moral Responsibility --<br/>1. Factors limiting moral responsibility --<br/>2. Degrees of responsibility --<br/>3. An example --<br/>4. The "sainthood" and "devil" problems --<br/>5. A Real-life Case: Responsibility in Software Engineering --<br/>6. Summary of Unit 2 --<br/>7. Some words of caution --<br/>Unit 3. Justice: Applications --<br/>9. Truth: Person-to-Person --<br/>1. Truth in actions --<br/>2. Truth in words --<br/>3. Harm from deception --<br/>4. Harm from withholding truth --<br/>5. Whistleblowing --<br/>6. Harm from spreading truth --<br/>7. Privacy --<br/>8. A Real-lfe Case: Censorship of the Internet --<br/>10. Truth: Social --<br/>1. Distinctions between science and engineering --<br/>2. Approach to knowledge in science --<br/>3. Recognition from scientific publication --<br/>4. Black and gray in scientific practice --<br/>5. Approach to knowledge in technology --<br/>6. Intellectual property --<br/>7. A Real-lfe Case: Copying Music Illegally using Internet --<br/>11. Fairness: Person-to-Person --<br/>1. Finding the fairest solution --<br/>2. Conflict of internet --<br/>3. Qualitative vs. quantitative fairness --<br/>4. Credit or blame in team projects --<br/>5. Authorship questions --<br/>6. Fairness in supervising --<br/>7. Fairness in contracting with clients --<br/>8. A Real-life Case: Problems with Peer Review --<br/>1. Intellectual property and the society --<br/>2. Environmental issues --<br/>3. Experts and paternalism --<br/>4. Social aspects of employment --<br/>5. A Real-life Case: Environmental Cleanup --<br/>Problems with the Superfund --<br/>6. Summary of Unit 3 --<br/>7. Some words of caution --
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Unit 4. Advanced Topics --<br/>13. Resource Allocation --<br/>1. What is resource allocation? --<br/>2. Allocation by merit --<br/>3. Allocation by social worth --<br/>4. Allocation by need --<br/>5. Allocation by ability to pay --<br/>6. Allocation by equal or random assignment --<br/>7. Allocation by similarity --<br/>8. How to decide among methods --<br/>9. A Real-life Case: Ethical Issues in Affirmative Action --<br/>14. Risk --<br/>1. A historical perspective --<br/>2. Defining safety and risk --<br/>3. Evaluating risk --<br/>4. Making decisions about risk --<br/>5. Some general guidelines --<br/>6. A Real-life Case: Experimental Drug Testing in Humans --<br/>15. Dealing with Differing Ethical Systems --<br/>1. Differing anthropologies --<br/>2. Differing principles and methods --<br/>3. Monism and relativism --<br/>4. Postmodernism --<br/>5. True pluralism --<br/>6. Conclusion --<br/>7. A Real-life Case: Geological Experiments in Sacred Mountains --<br/>16. Habit and Intuition --<br/>1. Rationalist approaches to moral action --<br/>2. Advantages of rationalist approaches --<br/>3. Problems with rationalist approaches --<br/>4. Toward a more comprehensive approach to moral behavior --<br/>5. A Real-life Case --<br/>6. Summary of Unit 4 --<br/>7. Some words of caution.
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General subdivision Moral and ethical aspects.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Technology
General subdivision Moral and ethical aspects.
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Personal name Barry, Robert Laurence.
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