Synthetic biology and morality : artificial life and the bounds of nature / / edited by Gregory E. Kaebnick and Thomas H. Murray

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : MIT Press, , [2013]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (223 p.)
• Disciplina: 174.2
• Soggetto topico: Bioethics; Bioengineering - Moral and ethical aspects; Synthetic biology - Moral and ethical aspects; Artificial life - Moral and ethical aspects
• Soggetto non controllato: PHILOSOPHY/Ethics & Bioethics; PHILOSOPHY/General; BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/General
• Persona (resp. second.): KaebnickGregory E.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Series Foreword; Introduction; I The Human Relationship to Nature; 1 Appeals to Nature and the Natural in Debates about Synthetic Biology; 2 Creating Life: Synthetic Biology and Ethics; 3 Engineered Microbes in Industry and Science: A New Human Relationship to Nature?; II The Value of Synthetic Organisms; 4 Lessons from Environmental Ethics about the Intrinsic Value of Synthetic Life; 5 Three Puzzles Regarding the Moral Status of Synthetic Organisms; 6 Synthetic Bacteria, Natural Processes, and Intrinsic Value; III Values and Public Policy; 7 Synthetic Biology and Public Reason ; 8 Biotechnology as Cultural Meaning: Reflections on the Moral Reception of Synthetic Biology9 "Teaching Humanness" Claims in Synthetic Biology and Public Policy Bioethics; About the Authors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Synthetic biology and morality
• ISBN: 0-262-31496-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779855803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Basic Bioethics