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Author:   Jan Hayes ,  Sarah Maslen
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9783032200013

ISBN 10:   3032200016
Pages:   291
Publication Date:   26 May 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introducing professional ethics in practice (Jan Hayes and Sa-rah Maslen).- Chapter 2. “Keep as ‘VERY CONFIDENTIAL!!!!’”: How the behavior of technical professionals contributed to the Grenfell Tower disaster (Jan Hayes, Orana Sandri and Sarah Maslen).- Chapter 3. The in-visible influence of expert consultants in engineering risk-based decision making (Jan Hayes).- Chapter 4. Industrial development, invisible haz-ards, and bringing to light their entanglements: Lessons for ethics from the 2014 Kaohsiung propene explosions in Taiwan (Bono Po-Jen Shih, Wen-Ling Hong and Jr-Ping Wang).- Chapter 5. Technology and micros-copy in biomedical education: navigating the ethical landscape (R. Claire Aland, Rebecca Lush and Nicole Shepherd).- Chapter 6. The limits of eth-ical engineering actions: the Titan case (Jan Hayes, Rune Storesund and Sarah Maslen).- Chapter 7. What does it take to “settle” a scandal? The ethics of hearing and acting on safety concerns (Dawn Goodwin and Daniel Taylor).- Chapter 8. Divergent attitudes towards ethics and collec-tive responsibility in Canadian engineering discourse (Kari Zacharias and Robyn Mae Paul).- Chapter 9. Industry and geopolitical tensions: Ethical dilemmas when safety meets security (Sissel Haugdal Jore, Ole Andreas Hegland Engen, Susanne Therese Hanse and Øyvind Midttun).- Chapter 10. Ethical licensing in practice: the case of CRISPR gene editing technol-ogy (Alison McLennan and Sarah Maslen).- Chapter 11. The price of safe-ty: The ethics of occupational risk monetization in Brazil (Carolina Bonemer Cury and Caio Caesar Dib).- Chapter 12. AI as an epistemic technology: Navigating ethics in practice in cases of distributed decision making (Sarah Maslen and Jan Hayes).

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Jan Hayes is a sociologist with 35 years’ experience in safety and risk management. Her research interests are all connected to organizational accident prevention and include professional ethics, expertise, decision making and use of standards. Sarah Maslen is a sociologist working on expert decision making in critical contexts, with a particular focus on the cultivation of embodied and other tacit forms of knowledge. She is the author of Learning to Hear: The Auditory Bases of Excellence in Practicing Medicine, Climbing Mountains, Making Music, and Communicating in Morse Code (Columbia University Press).

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