2. An introduction to ethical reflection through accidents and other scandals
The field of engineering ethics has developed in a context of increasing questioning of the equation technical progress = social progress. But it first developed in countries with a formal deontology and rhetoric that defined the activity of engineers as intrinsically beneficial to Humanity (§ 3.3.2 ). In the USA, the ethical training of engineers was encouraged in the late 70s by the National Science Foundation, which supported the publication of the first...
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