A32=Anders Sandberg
A32=David A. Frank
A32=Immaculada de Melo Martin
A32=Nicholas Agar
A32=Rebecca Roache
A32=S. Matthew Liao
A32=Valentina Urbanek
A32=William Kabasenche
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
applied ethics
automatic-update
B01=John Basl
B01=Ronald L. Sandler
Bioanotechnology
bioethics
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=HPQ
Category=HPS
Category=QDTQ
Category=QDTS
Conservation Cloning
COP=United States
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
Designer Ecosystems
Ecological Systems
Environmentalism
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
ethics
Geoengineering
Human enhancement technologies
Human Systems
Language_English
Non-Human Organism Systems
PA=Available
Philosophy
philosophy of science
Philosophy of science and the environment
Price_€50 to €100
PS=Active
softlaunch
Synthetic Biology
Product details
- ISBN 9780739184875
- Weight: 467g
- Dimensions: 154 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 24 Aug 2015
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Advances in our scientific understanding and technological power in recent decades have dramatically amplified our capacity to intentionally manipulate complex ecological and biological systems. An implication of this is that biological and ecological problems are increasingly understood and approached from an engineering perspective. In environmental contexts, this is exemplified in the pursuits of geoengineering, designer ecosystems, and conservation cloning. In human health contexts, it is exemplified in the development of synthetic biology, bionanotechnology, and human enhancement technologies. Designer Biology: The Ethics of Intensively Engineering Biological and Ecological Systems consists of thirteen chapters (twelve of them original to the collection) that address the ethical issues raised by technological intervention and design across a broad range of biological and ecological systems. Among the technologies addressed are geoengineering, human enhancement, sex selection, genetic modification, and synthetic biology. This collection advances and enriches our understanding of the ethical issues raised by these technologies and identifies general lessons about the ethics of engineering complex biological and ecological systems that can be applied as new technologies and practices emerge. The insights that emerge will be especially valuable to students and scholars of environmental ethics, bioethics, or technology ethics.
John Basl is assistant professor of philosophy at Northeastern University and cofounder of Philosophy TV (http://philostv.com).
Ronald L. Sandler is associate professor of philosophy at Northeastern University, and also director of Northeastern’s Ethics Institute. He is author of The Ethics of Species, Character and Environment, and Nanotechnology: The Social and Ethical Issues, as well as coeditor of Environmental Justice and Environmentalism and Environmental Virtue Ethics.
