TY - BOOK ID - 30999273 TI - Synthetic biology and morality : artificial life and the bounds of nature PY - 2013 SN - 0262314967 9781461936398 146193639X 9780262314961 9780262314978 0262314975 9780262019392 0262019396 9780262519595 0262519593 9781299757066 1299757065 PB - [Place of publication not identified] The MIT Press DB - UniCat KW - Artificial life -- Moral and ethical aspects. KW - Bioengineering -- Moral and ethical aspects. KW - Bioethics. KW - Synthetic biology -- Moral and ethical aspects. KW - Bioengineering KW - Synthetic biology KW - Artificial life KW - Moral and ethical aspects. KW - PHILOSOPHY/Ethics & Bioethics KW - PHILOSOPHY/General KW - BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/General KW - Life KW - Biology KW - Engineering KW - Biological engineering KW - Life science engineering KW - Biomedical ethics KW - Life sciences KW - Life sciences ethics KW - Science KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Philosophy of science KW - Professional ethics. Deontology KW - Biotechnology KW - Bioethics KW - Biological Science Disciplines KW - Natural Science Disciplines KW - Technology, Industry, and Agriculture KW - Disciplines and Occupations KW - Technology, Industry, Agriculture KW - Synthetic Biology KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - Biology - General KW - Biologies, Synthetic KW - Biology, Synthetic KW - Synthetic Biologies KW - Natural Sciences KW - Physical Sciences KW - Discipline, Natural Science KW - Disciplines, Natural Science KW - Natural Science KW - Natural Science Discipline KW - Physical Science KW - Science, Natural KW - Science, Physical KW - Sciences, Natural KW - Sciences, Physical KW - Biologic Sciences KW - Biological Science KW - Science, Biological KW - Sciences, Biological KW - Biological Sciences KW - Life Sciences KW - Biologic Science KW - Biological Science Discipline KW - Discipline, Biological Science KW - Disciplines, Biological Science KW - Life Science KW - Science Discipline, Biological KW - Science Disciplines, Biological KW - Science, Biologic KW - Science, Life KW - Sciences, Biologic KW - Sciences, Life KW - Engineerings KW - Bio engineering KW - Biological Engineering KW - Bio-Engineering KW - Bio engineerings KW - Bioengineerings KW - Engineering, Biological KW - engineering, Bio KW - engineerings, Bio KW - Occupations KW - Technology KW - Arts, Industrial KW - Industrial Arts KW - Cloud Computing KW - Vocations KW - Occupation KW - Vocation KW - Occupational Groups UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30999273 AB - Synthetic biology, which aims to design and build organisms that serve human needs, has potential applications that range from producing biofuels to programming human behaviour. The emergence of this new form of biotechnology, however, raises a variety of ethical questions - first and foremost, whether synthetic biology is intrinsically troubling in moral terms. Is it an egregious example of scientists 'playing God'? This book takes on this key ethical question, as well as others that follow, offering a range of philosophical and political perspectives on the power of synthetic biology. ER -