Text & Readings

Whitbeck's Ethics in the Works Understanding Ethical Problems in Engineering Practice and Research to be published later this year by Cambridge University Press will be available from graphic arts. Chapter 1, which was published as a separate article, "Ethics as Design: Doing Justice to Moral Problems," will be distributed in class.

On reserve in Barker Engineering Library:

Unger, Stephen H. (1994). Controlling Technology: Ethics and the Responsible Engineer (second edition). New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Ethical Issues in Engineering. Edited by Deborah Johnson (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1991.

On Being a Scientist, National Academy Press, 1995.

(for pre-med students)

Forgive and Remember: Managing Medical Failure by Charles L. Bosk (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1979)

Class readings are from the text, on the WWW, on reserve or handed out in class.

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