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UNINA9910777969403321 |
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The ethics of protocells : moral and social implications of creating life in the laboratory / / edited by Mark A. Bedau and Emily C. Parke |
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Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2009 |
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ISBN |
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0-262-25530-8 |
1-282-24037-4 |
9786612240379 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (381 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Artificial cells - Research - Moral and ethical aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Series Foreword; Preface; 1 Introduction to the Ethics of Protocells; I Risk, Uncertainty, and Precaution with Protocells; 2 New Technologies, Public Perceptions, and Ethics; 3 Social and Ethical Implications of Creating Artificial Cells ; 4 The Acceptability of the Risks of Protocells; 5 The Precautionary Principle and Its Critics; 6 A New Virtue-Based Understanding of the Precautionary Principle; 7 Ethical Dialogue about Science in the Context of a Culture of Precaution; II Lessons from Recent History and Related Technologies |
8 The Creation of Life in Cultural Context: From Spontaneous Generation to Synthetic Biology9 Second Life: Some Ethical Issues in Synthetic Biology and the Recapitulation of Evolution; 10 Protocell Patents: Property Between Modularity and Emergence; 11 Protocells, Precaution, and Open-Source Biology; 12 The Ambivalence of Protocells: Challenges for Self-Reflexive Ethics ; III Ethics in a Future with Protocells; 13 Open Evolution and Human Agency: The Pragmatics of Upstream Ethics in the Design of Artificial Life ; 14 Human Practices: Interfacing Three Modes of Collaboration |
15 This Is Not a Hammer: On Ethics and Technology16 Toward a Critical Evaluation of Protocell Research; 17 Methodological Considerations about the Ethical and Social Implications of Protocells; About the Authors; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Contributors explore the potential benefits, risks & ethical aspects of protocell technology, which creates simple forms of life from nonliving material. |
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