Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Ethics

Science and technology are seen to be more immersed in society and culture and politics today than ever before. We see this in popular media debate and in teaching. This has had good and bad effects and, for all that, has led to a fashion for cross‐disciplinary reference works, of which the current encyclopedia is a good example. Its title makes this clear – science and technology and ethics. The rationale for such works is that courses examining topics like human cloning and chemical weapons, science policy and informed consent in scientific research need their libraries to have suitable up...