The ethics of protocells : moral and social implications of creating life in the laboratory /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Bedau, Mark, Parke, Emily C.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2009]
Series:	Basic bioethics.
Subjects:	Artificial cells > Research > Moral and ethical aspects. Biotechnology > ethics. Cell Proliferation > ethics. Bioethical Issues.

Table of Contents:

Introduction to the prospects of protocells / Mark A. Bedau and Emily C. Parke
New technologies, public perceptions, and ethics / Brian Johnson
Social and ethical implications of creating artificial cells / Mark A. Bedau and Mark Triant
The acceptability of the risks of protocells / Carl Cranor
The precautionary principle and its critics / Emily C. Parke and Mark A. Bedau
A new virtue-based understanding of the precautionary principle / Per Sandin
Ethical dialogue about science in the context of a culture of precaution / Bill Durodié
The creation of life in cultural context : from spontaneous generation to synthetic biology / Joachim Schummer
Second life : some ethical issues in synthetic biology and the recapitulation of evolution / Laurie Zoloth
Protocell patents : property between modularity and emergence / Alain Pottage
Protocells, precaution, and open-source biology / Andrew Hessel
The ambivalence of protocells : challenges for self-reflexive ethics / Brigitte Hantsche-Tangen
Open evolution and human agency : the pragmatics of upstream ethics in the design of artificial life / George Khushf
Human practices : interfacing three modes of collaboration / Paul Rabinow and Gaymon Bennett
This is not a hammer : on ethics and technology / Mickey Gjerris
Toward a critical evaluation of protocell research / Christine Hauskeller
Methodological considerations about the ethical and social implications of protocells / Giovanni Boniolo.