The ethics of protocells : moral and social implications of creating life in the laboratory /
The ethics of protocells : moral and social implications of creating life in the laboratory /
edited by Mark A. Bedau and Emily C. Parke.
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009.
- 1 online resource (x, 365 pages) : illustrations
- Basic bioethics .
- Basic bioethics. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction to the ethics of protocells / Mark A. Bedau and Emily C. Parke -- New technologies, public perceptions, and ethics / Brian Johnson -- Social and ethical implications of creating artificial cells / Mark A. Bedau and Mark Triant -- The acceptability of the risks of protocells / Carl Cranor -- The precautionary principle and its critics / Emily C. Parke and Mark A. Bedau -- A new virtue-based understanding of the precautionary principle / Per Sandin -- Ethical dialogue about science in the context of a culture of precaution / Bill Durodié -- The creation of life in cultural context : from spontaneous generation to synthetic biology / Joachim Schummer -- Second life : some ethical issues in synthetic biology and the recapitulation of evolution / Laurie Zoloth -- Protocell patents : property between modularity and emergence / Alain Pottage -- Protocells, precaution, and open-source biology / Andrew Hessel -- The ambivalence of protocells : challenges for self-reflexive ethics / Brigitte Hantsche-Tangen -- Open evolution and human agency : the pragmatics of upstream ethics in the design of artificial life / George Khushf -- Human practices : interfacing three modes of collaboration / Paul Rabinow and Gaymon Bennett -- This is not a hammer : on ethics and technology / Mickey Gjerris -- Toward a critical evaluation of protocell research / Christine Hauskeller -- Methodological considerations about the ethical and social implications of protocells / Giovanni Boniolo.
Contributors explore the potential benefits, risks & ethical aspects of protocell technology, which creates simple forms of life from nonliving material.
English.
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9780262012621 9786612240379
224037 MIL 7548 MIT Press 9780262255301 MIT Press
GBA917125 bnb
101484629 DNLM 014908812 Uk
Artificial cells--Research--Moral and ethical aspects.
Bioethics.
Biotechnology--ethics
Cell Proliferation--ethics
Bioethics
Bioethical Issues
Cellules artificielles--Recherche--Aspect moral.
Bioéthique.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Business Ethics.
Bioethics
PHILOSOPHY/Ethics & Bioethics
TP248.23 / .E862 2009eb
174/.957
QU 375 / E84 2009
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction to the ethics of protocells / Mark A. Bedau and Emily C. Parke -- New technologies, public perceptions, and ethics / Brian Johnson -- Social and ethical implications of creating artificial cells / Mark A. Bedau and Mark Triant -- The acceptability of the risks of protocells / Carl Cranor -- The precautionary principle and its critics / Emily C. Parke and Mark A. Bedau -- A new virtue-based understanding of the precautionary principle / Per Sandin -- Ethical dialogue about science in the context of a culture of precaution / Bill Durodié -- The creation of life in cultural context : from spontaneous generation to synthetic biology / Joachim Schummer -- Second life : some ethical issues in synthetic biology and the recapitulation of evolution / Laurie Zoloth -- Protocell patents : property between modularity and emergence / Alain Pottage -- Protocells, precaution, and open-source biology / Andrew Hessel -- The ambivalence of protocells : challenges for self-reflexive ethics / Brigitte Hantsche-Tangen -- Open evolution and human agency : the pragmatics of upstream ethics in the design of artificial life / George Khushf -- Human practices : interfacing three modes of collaboration / Paul Rabinow and Gaymon Bennett -- This is not a hammer : on ethics and technology / Mickey Gjerris -- Toward a critical evaluation of protocell research / Christine Hauskeller -- Methodological considerations about the ethical and social implications of protocells / Giovanni Boniolo.
Contributors explore the potential benefits, risks & ethical aspects of protocell technology, which creates simple forms of life from nonliving material.
English.
9780262255301 0262255308 0262012626 0262512696 9780262512695 9780262012621 1282240374 9781282240377 9786612240379 6612240377
9780262012621 9786612240379
224037 MIL 7548 MIT Press 9780262255301 MIT Press
GBA917125 bnb
101484629 DNLM 014908812 Uk
Artificial cells--Research--Moral and ethical aspects.
Bioethics.
Biotechnology--ethics
Cell Proliferation--ethics
Bioethics
Bioethical Issues
Cellules artificielles--Recherche--Aspect moral.
Bioéthique.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Business Ethics.
Bioethics
PHILOSOPHY/Ethics & Bioethics
TP248.23 / .E862 2009eb
174/.957
QU 375 / E84 2009