Editors:
- Concentrates on the societal discussion about synthetic biology
- Scrutinizes traditional concepts such as "life" or "artificial"
- Leads to a refined view for societal, particularly ethical, evaluation
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment (ETHICSSCI, volume 44)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Instead of directly reviewing the field as a whole, firstly our book addresses the characteristic features of synthetic biology that are relevant to the societal discussion. Some of these features apply only to parts of synthetic biology, whereas others are relevant to synthetic biology as a whole. In the next step, these new features are evaluated with respect to the different areas of synthetic biology. Do we have the right words and categories to talk about these new features? In the third step, traditional concepts like “life” and “artificiality” are scrutinized with regard to their discriminatory power. This approach may help to differentiate the discussion on synthetic biology. Lastly our refined view is utilized for societal evaluation. We have investigated the public views and attitudes to synthetic biology. It also includes the analysis of ethical, risk and legal questions, posed by present and future practices of synthetic biology.
This book contains the results of an interdisciplinary research projectand presents the authors’ main findings and recommendations. They are addressed to science, industry, politics and the general public interested in this upcoming field of biotechnology.
Editors and Affiliations
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& Innovation Assessment GmbH, EA European Academy of Technology, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany
Margret Engelhard
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Synthetic Biology Analysed
Book Subtitle: Tools for Discussion and Evaluation
Editors: Margret Engelhard
Series Title: Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25145-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-25143-1Published: 25 April 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79741-0Published: 22 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-25145-5Published: 15 April 2016
Series ISSN: 1860-4803
Series E-ISSN: 1860-4811
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 211
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Bioethics, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering