Concerns about Science and Attempts to Regulate Inquiry

Concerns about the growth of scientific & technological enterprises have appeared in a number of areas. Discussions of efforts to regulate science do not have general value until various types of concern have been classified. Concerns about technology include concerns about (1) its physically de...

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Published in:Daedalus (Cambridge, Mass.) Mass.), 1978-04, Vol.107 (2), p.1-21
Main Author: Graham, Loren R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accidents
Bioethics
Biomedical Technology
Cost-Benefit Analysis
DNA, Recombinant
Epistemology
Ethics
Genetic recombination
Genetic research
Government Regulation
Health Care Rationing
History of medicine
History, Modern 1601
Human Experimentation
Medical ethics
Nuclear research
Public Opinion
Recombinant DNA
Regulation/Regulations
Research ethics
Research methods
Resource Allocation
Science - history
Science/Sciences (see also Scientific)
Slippery slope
Social aspects
Social Change
Social Control, Formal
Technology
Technology/Technological/ Technologically
United States
Wedge Argument
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Summary:Concerns about the growth of scientific & technological enterprises have appeared in a number of areas. Discussions of efforts to regulate science do not have general value until various types of concern have been classified. Concerns about technology include concerns about (1) its physically destructive effects, (2) its effects on ethical values, & (3) its economically exploitative effects. Concerns about science include concerns about (A) research on human subjects, (B) distorted allocations of resources in scientific research, (C) knowledge, including both fear of knowledge itself & fear that knowledge will inevitably lead to undesirable technologies, (D) research accidents, (E) the use of science to support or enhance racial, sexual, or class prejudice, & (F) the particularly scientific ways of attaining knowledge as dehumanizing. If regulation is needed, there are many levels at which it might be imposed & many possible regulatory agencies. W. H. Stoddard.
ISSN:0011-5266
1548-6192