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This book examines concepts and notions of moral responsibility in relation to health risks, technological risks and environmental risks. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental ethics, bioethics, public health ethics, engineering ethics, philosophy of risk and moral philosophy.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Note on Permissions
Introduction: Moral Responsibility and Risk
PART 1: HOLDING AGENTS RESPONSIBLE FOR RISK
Introduction to part 1: Moral Responsibility – the Philosophical Discussion
1. Fairness and Efficacy in Responsibility Distributions
2. Backward-looking and Forward-looking Responsibility
3. Individual and Collective Responsibility
PART 2: TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR RISK
Introduction to part 2: Responsibility as a Virtue
4. Taking Responsibility for Technological Risk
5. Responsible Risk Communication
6. Children, Risk & Responsibility
Index
About the author
Jessica Nihlén Fahlquist has a Ph.D. in philosophy and is a senior lecturer in biomedical ethics at the Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics at Uppsala University in Sweden.
Summary
This book examines concepts and notions of moral responsibility in relation to health risks, technological risks and environmental risks. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental ethics, bioethics, public health ethics, engineering ethics, philosophy of risk and moral philosophy.
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"Jessica Nihlen-Fahlquist offers a clear, analytic discussion of moral problems that arise as we seek to hold people responsible for the risks (rather than the actual harm) they impose on us and others. Her discussion of fair risk distributions, as well as the distinction between backward and forward-looking responsibility, will be of significant interest to anyone working in the field. The discussion of individual and collective responsibility adds valuable perspectives to an important academic debate with major societal implications. I warmly recommend this book to scholars, graduate students and others interested in the philosophy of risk and responsibility." -- Martin Peterson, Professor of History and Ethics of Professional Engineering, Texas A&M University, USA
