Ambivalences of Creating Life
Societal and Philosophical Dimensions of Synthetic Biology
Editors: Hagen, Kristin, Engelhard, Margret, Toepfer, Georg (Eds.)
- 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.
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Ambivalences of Creating Life
- Book Subtitle
- Societal and Philosophical Dimensions of Synthetic Biology
- Editors
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- Kristin Hagen
- Margret Engelhard
- Georg Toepfer
- Series Title
- Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment
- Series Volume
- 45
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- 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
- Series ISSN
- 1860-4803
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVII, 335
- Topics
