The Ethics of Protocells Moral and Social Implications of Creating Life in the Laboratory 1st Edition by Mark Bedau, Emily Parke 9780262512695 0262512696

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ISBN 10: 0262512696

ISBN 13: 9780262512695

Author: Mark A. Bedau, Emily C. Parke

Teams of scientists around the world are racing to create protocells–microscopic, self-organizing entities that spontaneously assemble from simple organic and inorganic materials. The creation of fully autonomous protocells–a technology that can, for all intents and purposes, be considered literally alive–is only a matter of time. This book examines the pressing social and ethical issues raised by the creation of life in the laboratory. Protocells might offer great medical and social benefits and vast new economic opportunities, but they also pose potential risks and threaten cultural and moral norms against tampering with nature and “playing God.” The Ethics of Protocells offers a variety of perspectives on these concerns

Table of contents:

1. Introduction to the Prospects of Protocells

2. New Technologies, Public Perceptions, and Ethics

3. Social and Ethical Implications of 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

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