Integrating Social and Ethical Concerns Into Regulatory Decision-Making for Emerging Technologies
Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: Many emerging technologies-including advances in geneticmedicine, animal and plant biotechnology, nanotechnology, stem cells, robotics, synthetic biology, and neuroscience-raise important ethical and social issues.These issues are intensively debated in a variety of contexts by stakeholders, scholars, and the researchers themselves during the research stage of technology development.Discussion appears in academic research projects and publications; regional, national and international conferences; professional associations; Congressional debates and reports; and governmental advisory bodies such as the President's Council on Bioethics, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health and Society, or the HHS Secretary's Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections.With a few relatively narrow exceptions for requirements such as human subjects protection, 1 however, the
Authors: Gary Marchant, Ann Meyer, Megan Scanlon
Institution: Arizona State University
Language: English
Subfield: Physiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1136096244