The ethics of protocells

The ethics of protocells: moral and social implications of creating life in the laboratory
Mark A. Bedau (Editor), Emily C. Parke (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009.
ISBN: 0262012626   ISBN13: 9780262012621   Edition: (hardcover : alk. paper)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to the prospects 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 DurodiÚ³e -- 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.

Book Details:

Language: eng
Physical Description: x, 365 p. ; 23 cm.
Edition Info: (hardcover : alk. paper)

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