Ethics in the liquid consumer society

analysis of power in the network society

اندیشمندان و صاحب نظران علوم اجتماعی بر این باورند که مرحله تازه ای در تاریخ جوامع بشری اغاز شده است. ویژگیهای این جامعه نو را می توان پدیده هایی از جمله اقتصاد اطلاعاتی جهانی ، هندسه متغیر شبکه ای، فرهنگ مجاز واقعی ، توسعه حیرت انگیز فناوری های دیجیتال، خدمات پیوسته و نیز فشردگی زمان و مکان برشمرد. از سوی دیگر قدرت به عنوان موضوع اصلی علم سیاست جایگاه مهمی در روابط انسانی دارد، قدرت و بازتولید...

The Ethics of Direct-to-consumer Testing

The ethics of society rather than medical ethics.

Responding to a preceding article by J.D. Swales, Smith argues against medical ethics as the domain solely of physicians and advocates incorporating instruction in ethical analysis into the medical curriculum. He supports Ian M. Kennedy's view that the public must determine the moral framework within which doctors may use their clinical skills, and cites British legal challenges to doctors' de...

From computer ethics to the ethics of global ICT society

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address the place of computer/ICT ethics in the global ICT society driven by knowledge economy. Design/methodology/approach – The paper focuses on three main issues: the evolution of the name of the leading technology of our times and, accordingly, the evolution of the name of the society in which this technology plays the leading role; some ethical dil...

Introduction: Nanotechnology, Society, and Ethics

Nanoethics, or the study of nanotechnology’s ethical and social implications, is an emerging but controversial field. Outside of the industry and academia, most people are first introduced to nanotechnology through fictional works that posit scenarios – which scientists largely reject – of self-replicating “nanobots” running amok like a pandemic virus (Crichton, 2002). In the mainstream media, ...