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Synthetic Biology and Morality: Artificial Life and the Bounds of Nature

Synthetic Biology and Morality: Artificial Life and the Bounds of Nature

Murray, Thomas H.
Kaebnick, Gregory E.

Paperback

Series: Basic Bioethics

PhilosophyMedical ReferenceGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0262519593
ISBN13: 9780262519595
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Jul 26 2013
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
A range of views on the morality of synthetic biology and its place in public policy and political discourse.

Synthetic biology, which aims to design and build organisms that serve human needs, has potential applications that range from producing biofuels to programming human behavior. 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? Synthetic Biology and Morality takes on this threshold ethical question, as well as others that follow, offering a range of philosophical and political perspectives on the power of synthetic biology.

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