Ambivalences of Creating Life
Societal and Philosophical Dimensions of Synthetic Biology
Herausgeber: Hagen, Kristin, Engelhard, Margret, Toepfer, Georg (Eds.)
Vorschau- Includes the contributions to an interdisciplinary international summer school entitled "Analyzing the societal dimensions of synthetic biology
- Synthetic biology is a rapidly developing new approach to biotechnology
- Its main aim is to use engineering principles to create living organisms for human use
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"Synthetic biology" is the label of a new technoscientific field with many different facets and agendas. One common aim is to "create life", primarily by using engineering principles to design and modify biological systems for human use. In a wider context, the topic has become one of the big cases in the legitimization processes associated with the political agenda to solve global problems with the aid of (bio-)technological innovation. Conceptual-level and meta-level analyses are needed: we should sort out conceptual ambiguities to agree on what we talk about, and we need to spell out agendas to see the disagreements clearly.
The book is based on the interdisciplinary summer school "Analyzing the societal dimensions of synthetic biology", which took place in Berlin in September 2014.
The contributions address controversial discussions around the philosophical examination, public perception, moral evaluation and governance of synthetic biology.
- Inhaltsverzeichnis (18 Kapitel)
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Editorial: Ambivalences in Societal and Philosophical Dimensions of Synthetic Biology
Seiten 1-8
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The Synthetic Nature of Biology
Seiten 9-53
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Making-of Synthetic Biology: The European CyanoFactory Research Consortium
Seiten 55-72
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Synthetic Biology for Space Exploration: Promises and Societal Implications
Seiten 73-100
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“First Species Whose Parent Is a Computer”—Synthetic Biology as Technoscience, Colonizing Futures, and the Problem of the Digital
Seiten 101-113
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Inhaltsverzeichnis (18 Kapitel)
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- Buchtitel
- Ambivalences of Creating Life
- Buchuntertitel
- Societal and Philosophical Dimensions of Synthetic Biology
- Herausgeber
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- Kristin Hagen
- Margret Engelhard
- Georg Toepfer
- Titel der Buchreihe
- Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment
- Buchreihen Band
- 45
- Copyright
- 2016
- Verlag
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Inhaber
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-21088-9
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-21088-9
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-21087-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-37271-6
- Buchreihen ISSN
- 1860-4803
- Auflage
- 1
- Seitenzahl
- XVII, 335
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