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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| Titolo: |
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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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (381 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 174/.957 |
| Soggetto topico: | Artificial cells - Research - Moral and ethical aspects |
| Soggetto non controllato: | PHILOSOPHY/Ethics & Bioethics |
| Altri autori: |
BedauMark
ParkeEmily C
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Contributors explore the potential benefits, risks & ethical aspects of protocell technology, which creates simple forms of life from nonliving material. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The ethics of protocells |
| ISBN: | 0-262-25530-8 |
| 1-282-24037-4 | |
| 9786612240379 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910777969403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Basic bioethics.