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LEADER: 02548nam a22003378a 4500
001 2008041190
003 DLC
005 20080922134504.0
008 080918s2009 mau b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aTP248.23$b.E862 2009
060 10 $aQU 375$bE84 2009
082 00 $a174/.957$222
245 04 $aThe ethics of protocells :$bmoral and social implications of creating life in the laboratory /$cedited by Mark A. Bedau and Emily C. Parke.
260 $aCambridge, MA :$bMIT Press,$cc2009.
263 $a0907
300 $ap. ;$ccm.
440 0 $aBasic bioethics
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction to the prospects of protocells / Mark Bedau and Emily Parke -- New technologies, public perceptions, and ethics / Brian Johnson -- Social and ethical implications of artificial cells / Mark Bedau and Mark Triant -- The acceptability of the risks of protocells / Carl Cranor -- The precautionary principle and its critics / Emily Parke and Mark Bedau -- A new virtue-based understanding of the precautionary principle / Per Sandin -- Ethical dialogue about science in the context of a culture of precaution / Bill Durodia -- The creation of life in cultural context : from spontaneous generation to synthetic biology / Joachim Schummer -- Second life : some ethical issues in synthetic biology and the recapitulation of evolution / Laurie Zoloth -- Protocell patents : property between modularity and emergence / Alain Pottage -- Protocells, precaution, and open-source biology / Andrew Hessel -- The ambivalence of protocells : challenges for self-reflexive ethics / Brigitte Hantsche -- Open evolution and human agency : the pragmatics of upstream ethics in the design of artificial life / George Khushf -- Human practices : interfacing three modes of collaboration / Paul Rabinow and Gaymon Bennett -- This is not a hammer : on ethics and technology / Mickey Gjerris -- Toward a critical evaluation of protocell research / Christine Hauskeller -- Methodological considerations about the ethical and social implications of protocells / Giovanni Boniolo.
650 0 $aArtificial cells$xResearch$xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 12 $aBiotechnology$xethics.
650 12 $aCell Proliferation$xethics.
650 22 $aBioethical Issues.
700 1 $aBedau, Mark.
700 1 $aParke, Emily C.