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- Title Pages
- Series Foreword
- Preface
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1 Introduction to the Ethics of Protocells -
2 New Technologies, Public Perceptions, and Ethics -
3 Social and Ethical Implications of Creating Artificial Cells -
4 The Acceptability of the Risks of Protocells -
5 The Precautionary Principle and Its Critics -
6 A New Virtue-Based Understanding of the Precautionary Principle -
7 Ethical Dialogue about Science in the Context of a Culture of Precaution -
8 The Creation of Life in Cultural Context: From Spontaneous Generation to Synthetic Biology -
9 Second Life: Some Ethical Issues in Synthetic Biology and the Recapitulation of Evolution -
10 Protocell Patents: Property Between Modularity and Emergence -
11 Protocells, Precaution, and Open-Source Biology -
12 The Ambivalence of Protocells: Challenges for Self-Reflexive Ethics -
13 Open Evolution and Human Agency: The Pragmatics of Upstream Ethics in the Design of Artificial Life -
14 Human Practices: Interfacing Three Modes of Collaboration -
15 This is Not a Hammer: On Ethics and Technology -
16 Toward a Critical Evaluation of Protocell Research -
17 Methodological Considerations about the Ethical and Social Implications of Protocells - About the Authors
- Index
- Basic Bioethics
(p.367) Basic Bioethics
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- The Ethics of Protocells
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
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- Title Pages
- Series Foreword
- Preface
-
1 Introduction to the Ethics of Protocells -
2 New Technologies, Public Perceptions, and Ethics -
3 Social and Ethical Implications of Creating Artificial Cells -
4 The Acceptability of the Risks of Protocells -
5 The Precautionary Principle and Its Critics -
6 A New Virtue-Based Understanding of the Precautionary Principle -
7 Ethical Dialogue about Science in the Context of a Culture of Precaution -
8 The Creation of Life in Cultural Context: From Spontaneous Generation to Synthetic Biology -
9 Second Life: Some Ethical Issues in Synthetic Biology and the Recapitulation of Evolution -
10 Protocell Patents: Property Between Modularity and Emergence -
11 Protocells, Precaution, and Open-Source Biology -
12 The Ambivalence of Protocells: Challenges for Self-Reflexive Ethics -
13 Open Evolution and Human Agency: The Pragmatics of Upstream Ethics in the Design of Artificial Life -
14 Human Practices: Interfacing Three Modes of Collaboration -
15 This is Not a Hammer: On Ethics and Technology -
16 Toward a Critical Evaluation of Protocell Research -
17 Methodological Considerations about the Ethical and Social Implications of Protocells - About the Authors
- Index
- Basic Bioethics
