Technology and Equality

Analyzing the roles technology plays in growing global inequalities, this collection combines theory with case studies to expose causes and correlations, as well as potential solutions. Contributing scholars provide perspectives from history, sociology, gender studies, anthropology, economics, law, ethics, and philosophy.

List of contents

Preface
1. Technology and Equality: An Introduction, Sven Ove Hansson
2. Law, Public Policy, and Equality, Colleen Murphy
3. Who Decides on Technology Development?, Armin Grunwald
4. Technology and Gender Equality, Lena Wånggren
5. Disability and Technology? No, Disability As Technology., Shelley Tremain
6. Work, Technology, and Equality, Sven Ove Hansson
7. Artificial Intelligence, Equality, and the Future of Work, Sven Nyholm and Markus Rüther
8. Information Technologies and Human Rights, Giovanni Sartor
9. Agriculture, Paul B. Thompson
10. Water and Inequality, Neelke Doorn
11. Is Breathing Clean Air a Matter of Equality?, Ebba Malmqvist
12. Human reproduction, Camisha Russell
13. Technology and Inequality in the Covid-19 Pandemic, Nicole Hassoun and Anders Herlitz
About the Authors
Index

About the author

Edited by Sven Ove Hansson and Colleen Murphy

Product details

• Authors: Sven Ove Hansson, Sven Ove Murphy Hansson
• Assisted by: Sven Ove Hansson (Editor), Colleen Murphy (Editor), Murphy Colleen (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2024
• EAN: 9781538184998
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-8499-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Philosophy, Technology and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy