Scientific Freedom (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Giordano, Simona; Cappato, Marco; Coggon, John

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Scientific Freedom is the first comprehensive collection covering both the state of scientific progress and the ethics, law and history of scientific research. The book gives readers a fascinating range of perspectives on matters of scientific research that directly affect all of us. Examining the ethical, legal, social, economic and political issues surrounding freedom of scientific research, the book evaluates ways in which national and international policies can impact upon individuals' access to potentially life-saving treatment, cures and technologies, and can therefore affect human life and death. With contributions from Nobel Laureates, representatives of patients' associations, scientists, scholars and politicians, this book provides a concise and comprehensive view of the limitations and dangers facing the future of innovation and scientific progress.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781849669016
• Artikelnr.: 38362870

Autorenporträt

Simona Giordano is Reader in Bioethics at the University of Manchester, UK. John Coggon is Research Fellow in the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, University of Manchester, UK Marco Cappato is an economist and a former Member of the European Parliament for Italy.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword - "Scientific Freedom and Responsibility" - John Sulston
Introduction - John Coggon, Simona Giordano, Marco Cappato
Part one: Understanding Science and Technology
Chapter 1: "New technologies: are sex and fertilisation ready for divorce?"
- Carl Djerassi
Chapter 2: "Is cell science dangerous?" - Lewis Wolpert
Chapter 3: "The cosmos above me, and the moral maze within me: Astrophysics
and base research - some reflections" - Lucio Piccirillo
Chapter 4: "Can freedom help to tackle global climate warming? A view from
biogeochemical research" - Luca Belelli Marchesini
Chapter 5: "Scientific freedom in an evolving world" - Jim Falk
Part II: Science and Society: Law and Regulation
Chapter 6: "Freedom of research and constitutional law: some critical
points" - Amedeo Santosuosso
Chapter 7: "Legal methodologies for maximizing freedom of scientific
research" - Charles H. Baron
Chapter 8: "Human tissue providers for stem cell research: freedom,
fairness and financial recompense" - Sarah Devaney
Chapter 9: "Ideology, fundamentalism, and scientific research" - Dick
Taverne
Chapter 10: "The Future of scientific research: compromises or way
forwards?" - Emma Bonino and Simona Giordano
Part three: Science, Ethics, and the Politics of Scientific Research
Chapter 11: "Science, society and democracy: freedom of science as a
catalyzer of liberty" - Gilberto Corbellini and Elisabetta Sirgiovanni
Chapter 12: "Religion and scientific freedom" - Søren Holm
Chapter 13: "Should we strive for total scientific freedom?" - Malcolm
Oswald
Chapter 14: "The ethical limitations on scientific research" - Michael
Boylan
Chapter 15: "What's special about scientific freedom" - John Coggon
Conclusion: "Concluding remarks; a short history of this anthology"- Simona
Giordano, Marco Cappato, and John Coggon,
Appendix: "Declaration of the second meeting of The World Congress for
Freedom of Scientific Research"