Ethical Issues: Scientific & Technological Developments

When should a surveillance system that is used in preventive policing sacrifice the privacy of citizens to prevent criminality? What should be the ...

Using an accessible question-and-answer format, this short but focused book tackles themes relating to the etheric - or life - realm. What is ether...

The recent explosion of neuroscience techniques has been game-changing in terms of understanding the healthy brain, and in the development of neuro...

Deepfake technology can create video evidence of just about anything: Hollywood superstar Margot Robbie in an orgy.Chinese president Xi Jinping dec...

It seems that just about every new technology that we bring to bear on improving our lives brings with it some downside, side effect or unintended ...

A wide-ranging history of assisted reproductive technologies and their ethical implications.Finalist of the PROSE Award for Best Book in History of...

The use of animals in research has always been surrounded by ethical controversy. This book provides an overview of the central ethical issues focu...

This volume tackles a quickly-evolving field of inquiry, mapping the existing discourse as part of a general attempt to place current developments ...

Politics in the Twentieth Century was dominated by a single question: how much of our collective life should be determined by the state, and what s...

The recent explosion of neuroscience techniques has proved to be game changing in terms of understanding the healthy brain, and in the development ...

Colin Farrelly contemplates the various ethical and social quandaries raised by the genetic revolution. Recent biomedical advances such as genetic ...

Colin Farrelly contemplates the various ethical and social quandaries raised by the genetic revolution. Recent biomedical advances such as genetic ...

THE NEW INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE WORLD IS FLATWe all sense it: something big is going on. Life is speeding up, and it is diz...

The first decade of the twenty-first century marked the demise of the current world order. Despite widespread acknowledgement of these disruptive c...

A guide to the everyday decisions about right and wrong faced by physical scientists and research engineers. This book offers the first comprehe...

How a journey of self-discovery unearthed the scandalous evolution of artificial insemination. By his forties, Peter J. Boni was an accomplished C...

This Eden is a smart modern-day adventure reminiscent of both the cyber noir novels of William Gibson and the golden age of espionage fiction.'An i...

Deepfake technology can create video evidence of just about anything: Hollywood superstar Margot Robbie in an orgy.Chinese president Xi Jinping dec...

In Industry Unbound, Ari Ezra Waldman exposes precisely how the tech industry conducts its ongoing crusade to undermine our privacy. With research ...

In this fascinating follow-up to the bestselling Information is Beautiful and Knowledge is Beautiful, the king of infographics David McCandless use...

By the end of this century, living beyond 100 will be the rule rather than the exception. What medical breakthroughs and new technologies will make...

We are now acutely aware, as if all of the sudden, that data matters enormously to how we live. How did information come to be so integral to what ...

How does the imagination work? How can it lead to both reverie and scientific insight? In this book, Kieran M. Murphy sheds new light on these pere...

Products that Last starts where most books on product development end. This new edition contains new examples and insights from recent publications...

A professor of architecture at Cambridge University, Marcial Echenique, recently became curious when he found wiring concealed under the floorboard...