Ethical Issues: Scientific & Technological Developments

EPDF and EPUB available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Money is central to capitalism and to our many sustainability crises. Could we remak...

The Welfare of Animals used in Research: Practice and Ethics gives a complete and balanced overview of the issues surrounding the use of animals in...

This collection examines the subject of identification and surveillance from 16th C English parish registers to 21st C DNA databases. The contribut...

This book explores issues raised by past and present practices of animal enhancement in terms of their means and their goals, clarifies conceptual ...

Managing identity through biometric technology has become a routine and ubiquitous practice in recent years. This book interrogates what is at stak...

'Vital and heart-wrenchingly intimate' Leah Hazard'Urgent, fascinating and thought-provoking' Julia Bueno'Thoughtfully researched and beautifully w...

A TIMES BEST CURRENT AFFAIRS BOOK OF THE YEARThe award-winning Financial Times columnist exposes the threat that Big Tech poses to our democracies,...

Human enhancement has become a major concern in debates about the future of contemporary societies. This interdisciplinary book is devoted to clari...

This book examines the most recent and contentious issues in relation to cybercrime facing the world today, and how best to address them. The contr...

Privacy is gravely endangered in the digital age, and we, the digital citizens, are its principal threat, willingly surrendering it to avail oursel...

BIOETHICS IN A CULTURAL CONTEXT--PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION, HISTORY, POLITICS presents a unique, philosophical approach to modern bioethics. Rather than...

The exploration of space raises new problems in the expression of human freedoms. While the potential to establish new extraterrestrial settlements...

Shortlisted for the Womens Prize for Non-Fiction 2024AI is changing what it means to be human. This is the unrivalled investigation into the impact...

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.So begins Good Enough to Eat?, which challenges Kafkas cul...

Welcome to the economy of algorithms. Its here and its growing. In the past few years, we have been flooded with examples of impressive technology....

Cutting across disciplines from science and technology studies to the arts and humanities, this thought-provoking collection engages with key issue...

'After reading Mitchells guide, youll know what you dont know and what other people dont know, even though they claim to know it. And thats invalua...

The complex relationship between technology and social outcomes is well known and has recently seen significant attention due to the deepening of t...

In 2020, COVID-19, the Australia bushfires, and other global threats served as vivid reminders that human and nonhuman fates are increasingly linke...

Privacy matters because it shields us from possible abuses of power. Human beings need privacy just as much as they need community. Our need for so...

In recent years, UN agencies, global tech corporations, states and humanitarian NGOs have invested in advanced technologies from smart borders to d...

We are currently riders of the information storm. AI fascinates us, images mesmerize us, data defines us, algorithms remember us, news bombards us,...

There is a deep distrust of experts in America today. Influenced by populist politics, many question or downright ignore the recommendations of sci...

Series: Themes in Canadian Sociology The only Canadian text to examine the intersection of technology and society through theories and real-world ...

New Fifth Edition Now Available!Principles of Meat Science provides a comprehensive overview that includes the latest discoveries and principles th...

This book analyses recent moves in the debate over human enhancement from two different perspectives: moral philosophy and science. It contains not...

Systems Ultra explores how we experience complex systems: the mesh of things, people, and ideas interacting to produce their own patterns and behav...

Digital technologies should be making life easier. And to a large degree they are, transforming everyday tasks of work, consumption, communication,...