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The ethics of protocells : moral and social implications of creating life in the laboratory /
Contributors explore the potential benefits, risks & ethical aspects of protocell technology, which creates simple forms of life from nonliving material.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Basic bioethics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.