Science and Ethics

Science and Ethics examines the ideology that denies the relevance of ethics to science.

Bernard E. Rollin (Author)

9780521674188, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 27 March 2006

306 pages
22.6 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.43 kg

'In this important book the author looks at historical and conceptual aspects of the ideology that denies the relevance of ethics to science. His conclusion is instructive...' The Scientific and Medical Network

In Science and Ethics, Bernard Rollin examines the ideology that denies the relevance of ethics to science. Providing an introduction to basic ethical concepts, he discusses a variety of ethical issues that are relevant to science and how they are ignored, to the detriment of both science and society. These include research on human subjects, animal research, genetic engineering, biotechnology, cloning, xenotransplantation, and stem cell research. Rollin also explores the ideological agnosticism that scientists have displayed regarding subjective experience in humans and animals, and its pernicious effect on pain management. Finally, he articulates the implications of the ideological denial of ethics for the practice of science itself in terms of fraud, plagiarism, and data falsification. In engaging prose and with philosophical sophistication, Rollin cogently argues in favor of making education in ethics part and parcel of scientific training.

Preface
1. The waxing and waning of faith in science
2. Scientific ideology and 'value free' science
3. What is ethics?
4. Ethics and research on human beings
5. Animal research
6. Biotechnology and ethics: is genetic engineering intrinsically wrong?
7. Biotechnology and ethics II: rampaging monsters and suffering animal
8. Biotechnology and ethics III: cloning, xenotransplantation and stem cells
9. Pain and ethics
10. Ethics in science.

Subject Areas: Human biology [PSX], Cellular biology [cytology PSF], Molecular biology [PSD], History of science [PDX], Philosophy of science [PDA], Ethics & moral philosophy [HPQ]