Integrating Social and Ethical Concerns Into Regulatory Decision-Making for Emerging Technologies
Gary E. Marchant, Ann Elizabeth Meyer, Megan Scanlon · Minnesota journal of law science & technology · 2010
Many emerging technologies-including advances in geneticmedicine, animal and plant biotechnology, nanotechnology, stem cells, robotics, synthetic biology, and neuroscience-raise important ethical and social issues.These issues are intensively debated in a variety of contexts by stakeholders, scholars, and the researchers themselves during the research stage of technology development.Discussion appears in academic research projects and publications; regional, national and international conferences; professional associations; Congressional debates and reports; and governmental advisory bodies such as the President's Council on Bioethics, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health and Society, or the HHS Secretary's Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections.With a few relatively narrow exceptions for requirements such as human subjects protection, 1 however, the