Ethical assessments of emerging technologies : appraising the moral plausibility of technological visions / Federica Lucivero.

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PART 1 -- Chapter 1: Democratic appraisals of future technologies: integrating ethics in Technology assessment -- 1.1 Appraising emerging technologies -- 1.2 From the myth to the history: the evolving social mandate of Technology Assessment -- 1.3 “Institutional” ethics of technology -- 1.3.1 Ethical bodies and the regulation of biomedical research -- 1.3.2 Normative evaluation of emerging technologies and advise to policy-makers -- 1.3.3 Outsourcing ethical reflection -- 1.4 Limitations in traditions assessing technologies -- 1.4.1 The normative deficit in TA -- 1.4.2 The technological and sociological deficit in institutional ethics -- 1.5 The need for integrating ethical inquiry in TA -- 1.6 Between grounding and exploring: the contribution of this study -- Chapter 2: Promises, expectations and visions: on appraising  the plausibility of socio-technical futures -- 2.1 Expecting future science and technologies -- 2.2 The social construction of the future -- 2.3 The guiding normativity in technological visions -- 2.4 Beyond an instrumentalist view: technology and morality -- 2.5 Analyzing expectations’ plausibility: a proposal -- 2.5.1 Desirability vs Plausibility -- 2.5.2 Breaking down the plausibility question -- 2.5.3 In search of plausibility -- 2.5.4 Three strategies to appraise plausible visions -- PART 2 -- Chapter 3: The mechanism in the pill. From abstract images to detailed descriptions -- 3.1 Visions of promising technologies: the Nanopil -- 3.2 Promises of emerging artifacts -- 3.3 Rhetoric and black-boxes -- 3.4 A note on methods -- 3.5 The Nanopil: tales of an emerging object -- 3.5.1 From an idea to a project -- 3.5.2 An idealized system and its building-blocks -- 3.5.3 The functional components and their material conditions -- 3.6 From the lab “details” back to the big picture -- Appendix -- Chapter 4: The doctor in the pill. From “technical” details to social practices -- 4.1 Expectations of artifacts in use -- 4.2 (Fictive) scripts and actor-worlds -- 4.3 Research design -- 4.4 The Nanopill: tales of an emerging practice -- 4.4.1 Nanopil designers-world -- 4.4.2 Comparing actors’ worlds: current screening practice and future trends -- 4.4.3 Users’ preference and resistance -- 4. 5 Conclusions -- Chapter 5: The good in the pill. Assessing the plausibility of visions of desirable worlds -- 5.1 Visions of desirable worlds -- 5.2 Different expected artifacts and different values -- 5.3 Plurality of values among actors -- 5.4 Impacts of technologies and the moral landscape -- 5.4.1 Mediation -- 5.4.2 The co-production of technology and morality -- 5.5 Conclusion -- PART 3 -- Chapter 6: Expecting diagnostics, diagnosing expectations. The plausibility framework in use -- 6.1 Immunosignatures and the healthcare revolution -- 6.2 Research design -- 6.3 Immunosignatures: a “simple” concept -- 6.3.1 Reconstructing the history of the concept -- 6.3.2 Concepts and components in research practice -- 6.3.3 Some conditions for ImSg to work -- 6.4 The expected context of use -- 6.4.1 The many applications of ImSg -- 6.4.2 Assessing and enriching fictive scripts from situated perspectives -- 6.5 Immunosignatures and a desirable world -- 6.5.1 Articulating moral connotations in different technological platforms -- 6.5.2 Stakeholders and normative divergence -- 6.5.3 The interactions between ImSg and morality -- 6.6 Discussion -- Appendix -- Chapter 7: Scenarios as “grounded explorations” -- Designing tools for discussing the desirability of emerging technologies -- 7.1 In search of a normative framework -- 7.1.2 Democratic deliberation as a normative ideal: a pragmatist approach -- 7.1.2 Triggering moral imagination -- 7.2 Scenarios as tools to foster moral imagination -- 7.3 Plausible scenarios for “grounded explorations” -- 7.4 Techno-moral vignettes and scenarios in action -- 7.4.1 Immunosignatures Workshop -- 7.4.2 Workshop on the Nanopil -- 7.5 Discussion -- References -- Appendix: Techno-ethical scenarios and techno-moral vignettes -- 1. Techno-ethical scenarios on Immunosignatures -- 2. Techno-moral vignettes on Nanopil -- Chapter 8: Building-blocks for ethical assessments of emerging technologies -- 8.1 Between “grounding” and “exploring” -- 8.2 Towards Ethical Assessments of Emerging Technologies -- 8.3 Ethical expertise? Interpreting and intervening -- 8.4 Open questions -- References.

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