Synthetic Biology and Morality : Artificial Life and the Bounds of Nature /

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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, whet...

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Autres auteurs: Kaebnick, Gregory E. (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2013]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Bioethics.
Bioengineering > Moral and ethical aspects.
MEDICAL > Ethics.
Synthetic Biology > ethics.
Biotechnology > ethics.
Bioengineering > ethics.
Artificial life > Moral and ethical aspects.
Synthetic biology > Moral and ethical aspects.
Electronic books.
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (192 pages).
ISBN:9780262314961

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