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    Paul Sollie, Marcus Düwell, editors.
    Summary: Argues that the world must critically assess the potential pitfalls of new technologies in advance. This book addresses methodological issues with regard to the ethical evaluation of new and emerging technology. It focuses on the concept of uncertainty that, unlike the notion of risk, is greatly undervalued in the field of ethics.

    Contents:
    Evaluating new technologies : An introduction
    Ethical aspects of research in ultrafast communication
    Whose responsibility is it anyway? Dealing with the consequences of new technologies
    Ethics in and during technological research; an addition to it ethics and science ethics
    The need for a value-sensitive design of communication infrastructures
    The moral relevance of technological artifacts
    Interdisciplinarity, applied ethics and social science
    Facts or fiction? A critique on vision assessment as a tool for technology assessment
    Exploring techno-moral change : The case of the obesity pill
    On uncertainty in ethics and technology
    New technologies, common sense and the paradoxical precautionary principle
    Complex technology, complex calculations : Uses and abuses of precautionary reasoning in law
    Ethics of technology at the frontier of uncertainty : A Gewirthian perspective.
    Digital Access Springer 2009