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MINORITY PERSPECTIVES ON VALUES AND
ETHICS IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY With funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Mental Health, the AAAS and 17 other organizations sponsored a Summer 1991 workshop on values and ethical issues in science and technology for minority scholars. Our primary goal was to attract more minorities into research on these issues. Although the interdisciplinary study of the ethical and social issues raised by science and technology has matured as a scholarly field of inquiry, it has not sufficiently taken into account the views and experiences of minorities regarding the impact of science and technology on their lives. The workshop was a step toward bridging this gap through an intensive period of study of the content of various minority perspectives and of their implications for scholarship and public policy. Through a series of panels, lectures, films, case studies, and small group sessions, 20-30 workshop participants explored in depth various minority perspectives on science and technology, how they compare to prevailing perspectives, and the different influences that these perspectives can have on scholarship, individual practices, and policy decisions regarding science and technology. The workshop participants were drawn from four broad ethnic groups -- American Indian/Native American, Asian/Pacific Islander, Black/African-American, and Hispanic/Chicano /Puerto Rican/Latino -- and hold advanced degrees in engineering, law, medicine, nursing, social science, natural and physical sciences, and the humanities. Their institutional affiliations include universities, community colleges, industry, government, a hospital, and law firm. SFR&L published a report based on the workshop in 1992. For more information, please contact Mark Frankel. · Viewing Science & Technology Through
A Multicultural Prism by Mark S. Frankel, May 1993. |
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