Synthetic biology and morality : artificial life and the bounds of nature / edited by Gregory E. Kaebnick and Thomas H. Murray.
2013
QH332 .S97 2013eb
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Synthetic biology and morality : artificial life and the bounds of nature / edited by Gregory E. Kaebnick and Thomas H. Murray.
ISBN
9781461936398 (electronic bk.)
146193639X (electronic bk.)
0262314967 (electronic bk.)
9780262314961 (electronic bk.)
9780262314978 (electronic bk.)
0262314975 (electronic bk.)
9780262019392 (alk. paper)
0262019396 (alk. paper)
9780262519595 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0262519593 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
146193639X (electronic bk.)
0262314967 (electronic bk.)
9780262314961 (electronic bk.)
9780262314978 (electronic bk.)
0262314975 (electronic bk.)
9780262019392 (alk. paper)
0262019396 (alk. paper)
9780262519595 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0262519593 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2013]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (vi, 214 pages .).
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QH332 .S97 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
174.2
Summary
Synthetic biology, which aims to design and build organisms that serve human needs, has potential applications that range from producing biofuels to programming human behaviour. The emergence of this new form of biotechnology, however, raises a variety of ethical questions - first and foremost, whether synthetic biology is intrinsically troubling in moral terms. Is it an egregious example of scientists 'playing God'? This book takes on this key ethical question, as well as others that follow, offering a range of philosophical and political perspectives on the power of synthetic biology.
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Synthetic biology, which aims to design and build organisms that serve human needs, has potential applications that range from producing biofuels to programming human behaviour. The emergence of this new form of biotechnology, however, raises a variety of ethical questions - first and foremost, whether synthetic biology is intrinsically troubling in moral terms. Is it an egregious example of scientists 'playing God'? This book takes on this key ethical question, as well as others that follow, offering a range of philosophical and political perspectives on the power of synthetic biology.
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Kaebnick, Gregory E., editor.
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