Synthetic biology and morality artificial life and the bounds of nature
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, whet...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
MIT Press
2013
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| Series: | Basic bioethics
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| Collection: | MIT Press eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| 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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| Physical Description: | vi, 214 pages . |
| ISBN: | 0262314975 9780262314961 9780262314978 9781461936398 146193639X 0262314967 |