This article discusses a range of recent major surveys of public attitudes toward
biotechnology. The authors identify a number of problematic features of the surveys: the use …

This study identifies the nature, strength and relative importance of influences on intentions
to purchase genetically modified (GM) food. Drawing upon contemporary attitude–behaviour …

Abstract When William Gibson first coined the word cyberspace in his novel Neuromancer,
he was describing the vision of a three-dimensional space of pure information consisting of …

For nearly 25 years, word of changes in our food has percolated through the press, occupied
untold bits of memory in computers on the Internet, and occasionally burst into the nightly …

In addition to surveys of public attitudes to biotechnology, parallel surveys of scientists have
also been carried out throughout Japan in 1991 (555 respondents) and in 2000 (370 …

Three approaches to the problem of how intercultural dialogue on ethics can be effectively
conducted among people who embrace different cultural beliefs and values are examined …

Medical practitioners have traditionally seen themselves as part of an international
community with shared and unifying scientific and ethical goals in the treatment of disease …

Gene therapy is in clinical trials in a number of countries, raising the question of whether
different ethical standards can be justified in different countries. One key issue is how …

This chapter argues that Rawlsian social justice fails to ensure property rights for Indigenous
people in the Bangladesh context. Explaining from an Indigenous standpoint paradigm (IRP) …

Over the last 30 years, an amassing body of work has focused on ethical dimensions of
technology in a variety of contexts impacting society. The emerging field of technoethics is …