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Synthetic biology and morality : artificial life and the bounds of nature /

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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, whet...

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Other Authors: Kaebnick, Gregory E. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2013]
Series:Basic bioethics
Subjects:
Bioethics.
Bioengineering > Moral and ethical aspects.
Synthetic biology > Moral and ethical aspects.
Artificial life > Moral and ethical aspects.
PHILOSOPHY/Ethics & Bioethics
PHILOSOPHY/General
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/General
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (vi, 214 pages .).
ISBN:9781461936398
146193639X
0262314967
9780262314961
9780262314978
0262314975
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262019392.001.0001