Technopathogenology: Technology and Non-Evident Risk - A Contribution to Prevention

ISBN-13: 9783034306126 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 772 str.

Guillermo Miguel Eguiazu; Alberto Motta

Opis

This book deals with the prevention of potential non-evident risks on human health associated with technology which encloses the general knowledge of developing processes used to achieve either goods or services. The voids in technological knowledge used in the development of new technologies are responsible for hidden defects in the same. The authors suggest that hidden defects in technologies are accountable for hazards in generations of environmental factors that they call technopathogens. These factors can cause adverse effects to human health which are expressed not immediately but over years or even generations. This phenomenon is defined as technopathogeny. Since technopathogeny cannot be framed within existing disciplines related to the phenomenon such as risk assessment, risk management, technology assessment, technological genesis, environmental impact assessment, life cycle assessment or ecology, the authors coin a new term for this specific discipline called Technopathogenology.

Spis treści

Contents: Technopathogeny - The Phenomenon - Technopathogeny: Its disciplinary orphanage and a framing proposal - Technopathogenology: The science and its method - Technopathogenology and its impact on society.

O autorze

Guillermo M. Eguiazu is a retired professor at the National University of Rosario, former researcher at the National Research Council and a retired research referee category 1 of the incentives Program of the Ministry of Education in Argentina. He studied Agronomy at the University of Rosario and began his teaching and research activity in 1973, following a doctorate at the Stuttgart Hohenheim University in Germany. His research area is the study of Technopathogeny. He founded the Program PROCABIE and the Institute INCABIE and chair of Technogeny at the University of Rosario.
Alberto Motta studied Agronomy at the University of Rosario and began his research activity in 1977 and two years later his teaching activity. He was a teacher and a researcher category B at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences University of Rosario, Argentina. His field of research is the study of Technopathogeny. He founded the Program PROCABIE, Institute INCABIE and chair of Environmental Technogeny at the University of Rosario. Since 2004 he is a member of the International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility.