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The Place of Ethics in Technology Assessment
20.4.1999
Over the past decades, Technology Assessment (TA) has become an acknowledged instrument of policy advice. The role of ethics in TA remains, in many cases, unclear. It is usually rated very highly, however, and it generally remains unclear whether we are dealing with a normative or descriptive ethical approach. Particularly participative approaches in TA seem to lean towards descriptive ethics. To examine this question further, a number of representatives of participative TA were invited from the Netherlands.
Participants: Dr. Rinie van Est (Rathenau Institute, The Netherlands); Dr. Bart Gremmen (Netherlands Graduate School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture); Dr. Rogeer Hoedemaekers (Dept. of Ethics, Philosophy & History of Medicine, Catholic University of Nijmegen), Dr. John Grin (Dept. of Politics, University of Amsterdam), Priv.-Doz. Dr. Armin Grunwald; Dr. Eva M. Neumann-Held; Professor Dr. Nanne van de Poll (Rathenau Institute, the Netherlands), Dr. Felix Thiele, Dr. Gert van der Wilt (Dept. of Medical Technology Assessment, Catholic University of Nijmegen).
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