Science and Technology Applied Ethics

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• - Resources for middle and high school students on ethical issues in the sciences.
  
• - Personal web pages of Luis Gonzalez-Mestres, including topics of science ethics and other social aspects of science.
  
• - Outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life.
  
• - Offers class resources, syllabus and information; compiled by Will Buschert.
  
• - Discussions on what being human is in our world of scientific and technological advancement.
  
• - A research project at the Meaning and Computation Lab, University of California, San Diego. Explores the hypothesis that information artifacts embody definite but implicit value systems.
  
• - Contains links to on-line resources, a bibliography, and several original essays on ethics and misconduct in science.
  
• - Addressing such issues as environmental, health and safety implications of technology, engineering ethics and professional responsibility.
  
• - Explores various ways that the human race has attempted to achieve perfection through philosophies and technologies of the past century.
  
• - Dicusses new technologies that are raising ethical, legal and social dilemmas as cutting-edge science intersects with the law.
  
• - Links to STS-related information sources from North Carolina State University.
  
• - Guidance of society members in various professional dealings, especially those involving conflicts of interest.
  
• - Starting points for students and teachers. Includes discussion topics and other curriculum links.
  
• - Final reports from the international conference, addressing many aspects of the place of science in society, including ethics, science and technology in economic development, and environmental and economic issues.
  
• - UNESCO: Division of Human Sciences, Philosophy and Ethics of Science and Technology.
  
• - Promotes the socially responsible application of science and technology through educational programs for young people, primarily at the college and high school levels.
  
• - Provides engineers, scientists, and science and engineering students with resources for understanding and addressing ethical problems.
  
• - An investigation into the ethics of science.