TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bedau,Mark
AU  - Parke,Emily C.
TI  - The ethics of protocells: moral and social implications of creating life in the laboratory 
T2  - Basic bioethics
SN  - 9780262255301
AV  - TP248.23 .E862 2009eb
U1  - 174/.957 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Artificial cells
KW  - Research
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Bioethics
KW  - Biotechnology
KW  - ethics
KW  - Cell Proliferation
KW  - Bioethical Issues
KW  - Cellules artificielles
KW  - Recherche
KW  - Aspect moral
KW  - Bioéthique
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Business Ethics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - PHILOSOPHY/Ethics & Bioethics
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction to the ethics 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
N2  - Contributors explore the potential benefits, risks & ethical aspects of protocell technology, which creates simple forms of life from nonliving material
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