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Social Responsibility in Science, Technology, and Medicine
author
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Durbin, Paul T.
publisher
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Lehigh University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0934223270
print isbn13
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9780934223270
ebook isbn13
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9780585242057
language
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English
subject
Science--Social aspects, Technology--Social aspects, Social medicine.
publication date
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1992
lcc
:
Q175.5.D85 1992eb
ddc
:
303.48/3
subject
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Science--Social aspects, Technology--Social aspects, Social medicine.
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Social Responsibility in Science, Technology, and Medicine
Paul T. Durbin
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1992 by Associated University Presses, Inc.
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The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials Z39.48-1984.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Durbin, Paul T. Social responsibility in science, technology, and medicine / Paul T. Durbin. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-934223-27-0 (alk. paper) 1. ScienceSocial aspects. 2. TechnologySocial aspects. 3. MedicineSocial aspects. I. Title. Q175.5.D85 1992 303.483dc20 92-7 CIP
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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CONTENTS
Preface
7
Part I: Introduction and Orientation
1. Introduction: The Crisis of Technological Culture and a Possible Solution
13
2. Ethics as Social Problem Solving
28
3. Social Workers: A Sample of What Is to Follow
38
Part II. Urgent Social Issues of Our Technological World
4. Technology Educators and Reform
51
5. Medical Educators, Technology, and Health Reform
60
6. Media Professionals and Politics
71
Part III. Specific Technosocial Issues
7. Biotechnologists, Scientific Activism, and Philosophical Bridges
87
8. Computer Professionals and Civil Liberties
97
9. Nuclear Experts and Activism
105
10. Environmentalists and Environmental Ethics
118
Part IV: Progressive Liberalism and Its Opponents
11. A Neo-Marxist Challenge to Progressive Activism
129
12. Autonomous Technology Theorists: A Second Challenge
140
13. Workers: A Response to Radical Critics
150
14. Conservatives
158
15. Liberals: Self-Interested and Progressive
170
16. Academic Philosophers
189
Notes
203
Index
227
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PREFACE
Since 1974, it seems safe to guess, well over a million people have read Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. However, it seems equally likely that only a small fraction of those readerspeople like myself who reached our intellectual maturity in the heady days of the anti-Vietnam War cum antitechnology movement of the late 1960s and early 1970sreally appreciate the intellectual ferment out of which that remarkable book emerged.
Like others, I was impressed by the fulminations of Jacques Ellul and Herbert Marcuse against our technocratic and bureaucratic culture. Perhaps unlike others, I have taken a very long timetwenty yearsto get my feelings about our technological society straightened out and to get my reactions down on paper. This book is one philosopher's personal reaction to the Great Technology Debate. I claim no great originality for the effort; it is simply my attempt to come to grips with what I see as the exaggerated claims of Ellul and Marcuseand Martin Heidegger or literary antitechnologists such as Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. It is my attempt to get at "the truth" (my truth, with a small "t") about technology and our technological culture. I hope, however, that the book is definitive in one sense: I want it to be my last word, my last contribution to the technology debate of the 1970s. I have no hope that the book will be definitive in any other sensethough I would be naive if I did not admit that I hope others share my modest perspective.
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