"Things That Went Well - No Serious Injuries or Deaths": Ethical Reasoning in a Normal Engineering Design Process

Science and Engineering Ethics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 503-516

  Lloyd, Peter ^a   Busby, Jerry ^b,c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision making; Design process; Engineering practice

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEATH; DECISION MAKING; DEONTOLOGY; EDUCATION; EGO; ENGINEERING; ETHICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INJURY; MORALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; ORGANIZATION; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0344010607     PISSN: 13533452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-003-0047-4     Document Type: Article

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