TY - JOUR
T1 - Scare-mongering and the anticipatory ethics of experimental technologies
AU - Carter, Adrian Nicholas
AU - Bartlett, Perry F
AU - Hall, Wayne Dallas
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Scare-mongering is a persistent hazard of anticipatory bioethics (Hall and Carter 2007). In striving to anticipate all potentially adverse consequences of emerging technologies, bioethicists run the risk of highlighting implausible and unlikely adverse effects. This is often, in part, an understandable response to proponents exaggerations of the likely benefits of the technologies. The target article by Duggan and colleagues (2009) on the ethics of trials of stem cell-based interventions (CBIs) is an instructive example.
AB - Scare-mongering is a persistent hazard of anticipatory bioethics (Hall and Carter 2007). In striving to anticipate all potentially adverse consequences of emerging technologies, bioethicists run the risk of highlighting implausible and unlikely adverse effects. This is often, in part, an understandable response to proponents exaggerations of the likely benefits of the technologies. The target article by Duggan and colleagues (2009) on the ethics of trials of stem cell-based interventions (CBIs) is an instructive example.
UR - http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15265160902788736
U2 - 10.1080/15265160902788736
DO - 10.1080/15265160902788736
M3 - Article
SN - 1526-5161
VL - 9
SP - 47
EP - 48
JO - The American Journal of Bioethics
JF - The American Journal of Bioethics
IS - 5
ER -