03706oam 2200613Ia 450 991045499390332120170809151805.00-262-25530-81-282-24037-497866122403799786612240379(CKB)1000000000763965(EBL)3339025(SSID)ssj0000150002(PQKBManifestationID)11176816(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000150002(PQKBWorkID)10239783(PQKB)10644642(StDuBDS)EDZ0000130673(MiAaPQ)EBC3339025(OCoLC)405031041(OCoLC)432995489(OCoLC)473968227(OCoLC)647751853(OCoLC)663422116(OCoLC)722715973(OCoLC)728056414(OCoLC)767030550(OCoLC)769365309(OCoLC)816316187(OCoLC)961548695(OCoLC)962602113(OCoLC)988449451(OCoLC)991920265(OCoLC)994925368(OCoLC)1037934439(OCoLC)1038657968(OCoLC)1045511043(OCoLC)1062920355(OCoLC)1077231225(OCoLC)1087333018(OCoLC-P)405031041(MaCbMITP)7548(EXLCZ)99100000000076396520090620d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe ethics of protocells moral and social implications of creating life in the laboratory /edited by Mark A. Bedau and Emily C. ParkeCambridge, Mass. MIT Press©20091 online resource (381 p.)Basic bioethicsDescription based upon print version of record.0-262-01262-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Technologies8 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 Collaboration15 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; IndexContributors explore the potential benefits, risks & ethical aspects of protocell technology, which creates simple forms of life from nonliving material.Basic bioethics.Artificial cellsResearchMoral and ethical aspectsPHILOSOPHY/Ethics & BioethicsArtificial cellsResearchMoral and ethical aspects.174/.957Bedau Mark604952Parke Emily C1055811OCoLC-POCoLC-PBOOK9910454993903321The ethics of protocells2489514UNINA