Ethics of Biotechnology

Informationen zum Autor Gaymon Bennett is Assistant Professor of Religion! Science! and Technology at Arizona State University! USA. Zusammenfassung The essays collected in this volume examine emerging biotechnical capacities and the turbulent power relations these capacities are bringing into the world. The volume has an innovative approach to the subject and focuses on the underlying cultural and institutional forces that shape how biotechnologists approach the world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: Artificiality and Industry: Biotechnology Between the Possible and the Actual, Part 2: Increased Capacity: The Foundations of a Bioeconomy, Part 3: Recombinant Thresholds: From Molecular Biology to Biotech , Part 4: Sequencing, Synthesis, Design: From Genomics to Synthetic Biology , Part 5: Digital Biology and the Biotechnical Imagination , Part 6: Biotechnical Uncertainty and the Ethical Near Future.

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• Authors: Gaymon Bennett, Bennett Gaymon, Fred Hutchinson, Hutchinson Fred
• Assisted by: Gaymon Bennett (Editor), Gaymon (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Bennett (Editor)
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.03.2016
• EAN: 9781472439178
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-3917-8
• Series: The Library of Essays on the Ethics of Emerging Technologies; The Library of Essays on the Ethics of Emerging Technologies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Genetics, genetic engineering; SCIENCE / Biotechnology, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, biotechnology, Bioethics, Bio-ethics