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The ethics of protocells : moral and social implications of creating life in the laboratory / edited by Mark A. Bedau and Emily C. Parke.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Basic bioethics.
- Basic bioethics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Artificial cells--Research--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Artificial cells.
- Biotechnology--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Biotechnology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (381 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Contributors explore the potential benefits, risks & ethical aspects of protocell technology, which creates simple forms of life from nonliving material.
- Contents:
- Contents; Series Foreword; Preface; 1 Introduction to the Ethics of Protocells; I Risk, Uncertainty, and Precaution with Protocells; 2 New Technologies, Public Perceptions, and Ethics; 3 Social and Ethical Implications of Creating Artificial Cells ; 4 The Acceptability of the Risks of Protocells; 5 The Precautionary Principle and Its Critics; 6 A New Virtue-Based Understanding of the Precautionary Principle; 7 Ethical Dialogue about Science in the Context of a Culture of Precaution; II Lessons from Recent History and Related Technologies
- 8 The Creation of Life in Cultural Context: From Spontaneous Generation to Synthetic Biology9 Second Life: Some Ethical Issues in Synthetic Biology and the Recapitulation of Evolution; 10 Protocell Patents: Property Between Modularity and Emergence; 11 Protocells, Precaution, and Open-Source Biology; 12 The Ambivalence of Protocells: Challenges for Self-Reflexive Ethics ; III Ethics in a Future with Protocells; 13 Open Evolution and Human Agency: The Pragmatics of Upstream Ethics in the Design of Artificial Life ; 14 Human Practices: Interfacing Three Modes of Collaboration
- 15 This Is Not a Hammer: On Ethics and Technology16 Toward a Critical Evaluation of Protocell Research; 17 Methodological Considerations about the Ethical and Social Implications of Protocells; About the Authors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-25530-8
- 1-282-24037-4
- 9786612240379
- OCLC:
- 405031041
- Publisher Number:
- 9786612240379
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