Religion, risk, and the technological society

The Twenty-first Century Confronts Its Gods: Globalization, Technology, and War

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 45-58

  Brunk, Conrad G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

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References (13)

1. William Lowrance, Of Acceptable Risk: Science and the Determination of Safety (Los Altos: W. Kaufman, 1976);
2. Deborah G. May and Rachelle D. Hollander, Acceptable Evidence: Science and Values in Risk Management (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).
3. Hans Jonas, The Imperative of Responsibility: In Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984).
4. Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society (New York: Knopf, 1964);
5. George Grant, Technology and Empire (Toronto: House of Anansi, 1969).
6. John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971).
7. Ronald Cole Turner, ed., Human Cloning: Religious Responses (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1997), p. 133.
8. Turner, Human Cloning, p. 135.
9. HRH The Prince of Wales, "Seeds of Disaster", The Ecologist 28, no. 5(1988):252.
10. Bryan Norton, Toward Unity Among Environmentalists (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991);
11. also "Convergence and Contextualism: Some Clarifications and a Reply to Steverson", Environmental Ethics 19(1977):87-100.
12. Conrad Brunk, Lawrence Haworth, and Brenda Lee, Value Assumptions in Risk Assessment: A Case Study of the Alachlor Controversy (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1991).
13. K. S. Shrader-Frachette, Risk and Rationality: Philosophical Foundations for Populist Reforms (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991).