title: [From bioethics to the new technology ethics].
abstract: Just as what we can all "technoscience" is emerging in our everyday life, a reflection should be conducted concerning the implications of the scientific and technical progress within our society from now on globalised. We will tackle successively: 1. The ambiguities and paradoxes related to the development of new technologies: in the field of bioethics: artificial reproduction, mammal cloning, genetically modified organisms. towards the ethics of new technologies: ethics of information and communication technologies and ethics of space policy; 2. Nature, foundation and characteristics of the ethical approach; the precaution principle must be completed with two other principles: the principle of experience and the principle of vigilance; 3. The modalities of a democratic management of the ethical approach: it is a matter of defining the role of the three main actors, i.e.: experts, politicians and citizens representing public opinion. It is necessary to promote the ethical approach within a democratic context, that is to ensure a dialogue between experts, policy decision-makers and public opinion on all of the applications of science and technology. It is from such a permanent and renewed dialogue that will emerge the image we give from ourselves in the present world.
authors.affiliation: l'Université René Descartes.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pompidou
mesh_terms: D001675:Bioethics; D003709:Democracy; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005544:Forecasting; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends*; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D011057:Politics; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical / Q000639:trends*