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Designer Biology
The Ethics of Intensively Engineering Biological and Ecological Systems
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2013
Summary
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.
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Copyright year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-7821-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-7822-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
294
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 6
Chapter One: Sex Selection and the Value-Ladenness of the Procreative Liberty Framework No access
Chapter Two: The Ethics of Embryo Selection No access
Chapter Three: Assessing Efficacy of “Neuroenhancing” Drugs No access
Chapter Four: Engineering for Virtue? Toward Holistic Moral Enhancement No access
Chapter Five: Radical Human Enhancement, and What’s Wrong with It No access
Chapter Six: Human Engineering and Climate Change No access
Chapter Seven: The Human Influence No access
Chapter Eight: Why Scientists Should Get Out of Nature Conservation No access
Chapter Nine: What It Takes to Justify Geoengineering the Climate No access
Chapter Ten: Remediation vs. Steering No access
Chapter Eleven: Sensitivity Enhancement No access
Chapter Twelve: The Capacities, Interests, and Organization of Artifactual Organisms No access
Chapter Thirteen: How to Evolve a Good of Your Own No access
