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KMID : 1172020010020020135
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Journal of Korean Bioethics Association
2001 Volume.2 No. 2 p.135 ~ p.156
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Research Ethics in the Era of Science and Technology: Focusing on Biotechnology Area
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Kim Hwan-Suk
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Abstract
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Over the last one hundred years, science and technology have had profound effects on human society and the environment. The effects of science and technology may be either positive or negative. But the recent rapid industrialization of science, as can be seen in biotechnology, has heightened the actual and potential risks and has thus led to social controversies. Although the final decision to develop(or not) particular technologies may be in the hands of government or industries, it is scientists who do research such technologies and offer them. So the research ethics of scientists is very important. The era of science and technology is characterized by ’risk society’ which requires, as some writers named, ’reflexive scientization’ or ’post-normal science’. Both of these concepts indicate that scientists should cast off their authority as experts and instead co-operate with the public to meet the risks and uncertainty of the consequences of science. This means the democratization of science, which is, in my view, also the research ethics
required in the era of science and technology.
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KEYWORD
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Science and Technology, Risk, Research Ethics, Reflexive Scientization, Post-normal Science
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