Editors:
- 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
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment (ETHICSSCI, volume 45)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
"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.Editors and Affiliations
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EA European Academy of Technology and Innovation Assessment GmbH, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany
Kristin Hagen, Margret Engelhard
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Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Georg Toepfer
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ambivalences of Creating Life
Book Subtitle: Societal and Philosophical Dimensions of Synthetic Biology
Editors: Kristin Hagen, Margret Engelhard, Georg Toepfer
Series Title: Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21088-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-21087-2Published: 08 September 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37271-6Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-21088-9Published: 27 August 2015
Series ISSN: 1860-4803
Series E-ISSN: 1860-4811
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 335
Topics: Philosophy, general, Biotechnology