From "the contaminated blood affair" to the mediator scandal

public health, political responsibility, and democracy

Patrick Troude-Chastenet

pp. 145-158

in: Helena Mateus Jerónimo, José L. García, Carl Mitcham (eds), Jacques Ellul and the technological society in the 21st century, Berlin, Springer, 2013

Abstrakt

Does the philosophy of Jacques Ellul remain able to help us in some way understand the twenty-first century? From the September 11th attacks to the Fukushima disaster, through to the financial crisis of 2007–2008, we find a number of phenomena to illustrate his principal theories.

Cited authors

Ellul Jacques