The ethics of protocells
Subtitle: moral and social implications of creating life in the laboratory
By: edited by Mark A. Bedau and Emily C. Parke.
Contributors: Bedau, Mark.; Parke, Emily C.
Series: Basic bioethics
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780262012621; 9780262512695
Subjects: Artificial cells -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects; Biotechnology -- ethics; Cell Proliferation -- ethics; Bioethical Issues
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the prospects of protocells / Mark Bedau and Emily Parke; title: New technologies, public perceptions, and ethics / Brian Johnson; title: Social and ethical implications of artificial cells / Mark Bedau and Mark Triant; title: The acceptability of the risks of protocells / Carl Cranor; title: The precautionary principle and its critics / Emily Parke and Mark Bedau; title: A new virtue-based understanding of the precautionary principle / Per Sandin; title: Ethical dialogue about science in the context of a culture of precaution / Bill Durodia; title: The creation of life in cultural context : from spontaneous generation to synthetic biology / Joachim Schummer; title: Second life : some ethical issues in synthetic biology and the recapitulation of evolution / Laurie Zoloth; title: Protocell patents : property between modularity and emergence / Alain Pottage; title: Protocells, precaution, and open-source biology / Andrew Hessel; title: The ambivalence of protocells : challenges for self-reflexive ethics / Brigitte Hantsche; title: Open evolution and human agency : the pragmatics of upstream ethics in the design of artificial life / George Khushf; title: Human practices : interfacing three modes of collaboration / Paul Rabinow and Gaymon Bennett; title: This is not a hammer : on ethics and technology / Mickey Gjerris; title: Toward a critical evaluation of protocell research / Christine Hauskeller; title: Methodological considerations about the ethical and social implications of protocells / Giovanni Boniolo.