The Scope of Information Ethics
Challenges in Education, Technology, Communications, Medicine and Other Domains
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About the Book
The field of information ethics (IE)—a subdivision of ethics—was developed during the 1980s, originating and maturing in library science and slowly working its way into other disciplines and practical applications. Some years later, a secondary field emerged, emphasizing theoretical and philosophical concepts, with little focus on real-world applicability.
The first of its kind, this comprehensive overview of IE evaluates the production, dissemination, storage, accessing and retrieval of information in an ethical context in areas including the humanities, sciences, medicine and business. A leading figure in the field, the author is concerned with misconduct (falsification, fabrication, plagiary), peer review, the law, privacy, imaging and robotics, among other matters.
About the Author(s)
Bibliographic Details
Robert Hauptman
Format: softcover (6 x 9)
Pages: 195
Bibliographic Info: notes, bibliography, index
Copyright Date: 2019
pISBN: 978-1-4766-7567-1
eISBN: 978-1-4766-3530-9
Imprint: McFarland
Table of Contents
Foreword (Johannes K. Britz) 1
Abbreviations 3
Introduction 5
1 Data and Information 15
2 Ethics and Law 31
3 Theory 42
4 Research 51
5 Science 58
6 Social Science 63
7 Humanities 67
8 Peer Review, Publication, Retraction 72
9 Storage, Access, Provision 80
10 Intellectual Freedom and Censorship 88
11 Computer Ethics and the Internet 96
12 Privacy, Security, Surveillance 106
13 Law 117
14 Academia and Its DisTable of Contents
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15 Business 134
16 Medicine 144
17 Architecture and Engineering 150
18 Expert Systems, Robotics, War 155
19 Images, Imaging and the Imagination 163
Conclusion 167
Afterword (Elizabeth A. Buchanan) 169
Bibliography 171
Index 183
