Contributor
Schummer, Joachim, editor.
Edition Statement:Paperback edition.
ImprintHackensack, NJ : World Scientific Publishing Company, 2022.
Imprint2021
Descriptionvii, 559 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Note:Introduction Ethics of chemistry : meeting a teaching need / Joachim Schummer & Tom Børsen -- Part I: Misuse and misconduct. Scientific misconduct. The case of the finicky reactions : a case study of trust, accountability, and misconduct / Janet D. Stemwedel ; Chemical weapons research and production. Ethics of chemical weapons research : poison gas in World War One / Joachim Schummer ; Ethical responsibilities in military-related work : the case of napalm / Stephen M. Contakes & Taylor Jashinsky -- Part II: Unforseen local consequences. Industrial disasters. Corporate and governmental responsibilities for preventing chemical disasters : lessons from Bhopal / Ingrid Eckerman & Tom Børsen ; Adverse effects of chemical products. About the futile dream of an entirely riskless and fully effective remedy : Thalidomide / Klaus Ruthenberg ; Risk and responsibility in chemical research : the case of Agent Orange / Claus Jacob & Adam Walters ; Chemical waste disposal. When laypeople are right and experts are wrong : lessons from love canal / Ragnar Fjelland -- Part III: Global and long-term influences and challenges. Global environmental pollution. Applying an ethical judgment model to the case of DDT / Tom Børsen & Søren Nors Nielsen ; Applying utilitarianism and deontology in managing Bisphenol-A risks in the United States / Abigail Martin, Alastair Iles & Christine Rosen ; Green chemistry. Undoing chemical industry lock-ins : polyvinyl chloride and green chemistry / Alastair Iles, Abigail Martin & Christine Meisner Rosen ; Intergenerational and global justice. The ethics of rare earth elements over time and space / Abigail Martin & Alastair Iles ; Hazard foresight. The chemical prediction of stratospheric ozone depletion : a moral model of scientific hazard foresight / Joachim Schummer ; Climate engineering. Ethics of climate engineering : chemical capture of carbon dioxide from air / Dane Scott -- Part IV: Challenging human culture. Human enhancement. The ethical judgment : chemical psychotropics / Klavs Birkholm ; Artificial life. 'Are you playing god?' : synthetic biology and the chemical ambition to create artificial life / Joachim Schummer ; Intellectual property rights. The normative molecule : patent rights and DNA / Saurabh Vishnubhakat -- Part V: Codes and regulations. Codes of conduct. American Chemical Society codes of conduct : past, present, and future / Jeffrey Kovac ; Chemical regulation. Ethics and chemical regulation : the case of REACH / Jean-Pierre Llored.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Note:Although chemistry has been the target of numerous public moral debates for over a century, there is still no academic field of ethics of chemistry to develop an ethically balanced view of the discipline. And while ethics courses are increasingly demanded for science and engineering students in many countries, chemistry is still lagging behind because of a lack of appropriate teaching material. This volume fills both gaps by establishing the scope of ethics of chemistry and providing a cased-based approach to teaching, thereby also narrating a cultural history of chemistry. From poison gas in WWI to climate engineering of the future, this volume covers the most important historical cases of chemistry. It draws lesson from major disasters of the past, such as in Bhopal and Love Canal, or from thalidomide, Agent Orange, and DDT. It further introduces to ethical arguments pro and con by discussing issues about bisphenol-A, polyvinyl chloride, and rare earth elements; as well as of contested chemical projects such as human enhancement, the creation of artificial life, and patents on human DNA. Moreover, it illustrates chemical engagements in preventing hazards, from the prediction of ozone depletion, to Green Chemistry, and research in recycling, industrial substance substitution, and clean-up. Students also learn about codes of conduct and chemical regulations.
