CiNii Books - The ethics of protocells : moral and social implications of creating life in the laboratory

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The ethics of protocells : moral and social implications of creating life in the laboratory

edited by Mark A. Bedau and Emily C. Parke

（Basic bioethics series）

MIT Press, c2009

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction to the ethics of protocells / Mark A. Bedau and Emily C. Parke
New technologies, public perceptions, and ethics / Brian Johnson
Social and ethical implications of creating artificial cells / Mark A. Bedau and Mark Triant
The acceptability of the risks of protocells / Carl Cranor
The precautionary principle and its critics / Emily C. Parke and Mark A. 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 Durodié
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-Tangen
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