Designer Biology

The Ethics of Intensively Engineering Biological and Ecological Systems
Herausgeber: Sandler, Ronald L.; Basl, John

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book consists of thirteen chapters 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 650g
• ISBN-13: 9780739178218
• ISBN-10: 0739178210
• Artikelnr.: 38077545

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Contributor Biographies Introduction I. Engineering Humans
Chapter 1: Sex Selection and the Value-Ladenness of the Procreative Liberty
Framework Chapter 2: The Ethics of Embryo Selection Chapter 3: Assessing
Efficacy of "Neuroenhancing" Drugs: Normative Problems in Empirical
Controversies Chapter 4: Engineering for Virtue? Toward Holistic Moral
Enhancement Chapter 5: Radical Enhancement and What' Wrong with It Chapter
6: Human Engineering and Climate Change II. Engineering the Environment
Chapter 7: The Human Influence: Moral Responsibility for Novel Ecosystems
Chapter 8: Why Scientists Should Get Out of Nature Conservation Chapter 9:
What it Takes to Justify Geoengineering the Climate Chapter 10: Remediation
vs. Steering: An Act-Description Approach to Approving and Funding
Geoengineering Research III. Engineering Life Chapter 11: Sensitivity
Enhancement: The Ethics of Testing Cognitive Enhancement on Non-Human
Research Subjects Chapter 12: The Capacities, Interests, and Organization
of Artifactual Organisms Chapter 13: How to Evolve a Good of Your Own: The
Biological Interests of Instant Organisms Conclusion: Lessons for the
Future