Scientific advance, technological development, and society

William B. Bondeson

pp. 199-203

in: William B. Bondeson, Tristram Engelhardt, Stuart Spicker, Joseph M. White Jr (eds), New knowledge in the biomedical sciences, Berlin, Springer, 1982

Abstract

To talk about the moral uses of new knowledge in the biomedical sciences is to talk about the ways in which the processes of the acquisition of knowledge and the processes by which ways are found to apply that knowledge can be made more sensitive to the individual and social consequences of these activities. We are faced today with an enormous range of problems which cry out for a solution and a fair number of them require advances in the sciences.