title: The role of ethics in science and engineering.
abstract: It is generally thought that science and engineering should never cross certain ethical lines. The idea connects ethics to science and engineering, but it frames the relationship in a misleading way. Moral notions and practices inevitably influence and are influenced by science and engineering. The important question is how such interactions should take place. Anticipatory ethics is a new approach that integrates ethics into technological development.
authors.affiliation: Department of Science, Technology, and Society, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA. dgj7p@virginia.edu
authors.forename: Deborah G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Johnson
mesh_terms: D004738:Engineering / Q000941:ethics* / Q000639:trends; D004995:Ethics, Professional; D006801:Humans; D012586:Science / Q000941:ethics* / Q000639:trends