Technology, Transgenics and a Practical Moral Code

• Main Author: Cooley, Dennis R. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
• Series: The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology, 4
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Ethics.; Philosophy of nature.; Agriculture.; Law.; Public law.; Law, general.; Philosophy of Technology.; Public Law.; Philosophy of Nature.

Ethical debate often lags far behind the development of new technology. As a result, confusion abounds over what is permissible, what is not, and what we should do about any of it. This uncertainty results in bad policy decisions and unnecessary strife in some communities, as has happened in the cas...