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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
I. Engineering humans -- Sex selection and the value-ladenness of the procreative liberty framework / Inmaculada de Melo Martin -- The ethics of embryo selection / Valentina Urbanek -- Assessing efficacy of "neuroenhancing" drugs : normative problems in empirical controversies / David Frank -- Engineering for virtue? : toward holistic moral enhancement / William Kabasenche -- Radical enhancement and what's wrong with it / Nicholas Agar -- Human engineering and climate change / S. Matthew Liao, Anders Sandberg, and Rebecca Roache -- II. Engineering the environment -- The human influence : moral responsibility for novel ecosystems / Allen Thompson and Stephen Jackson -- Why scientists should get out of nature conservation / Don Meier -- What it takes to justify geoengineering the climate / Nicole Hassoun -- Remediation vs. steering : an act-description approach to approving and funding geoengineering research / Benjamin Hale -- III. Engineering life -- Sensitivity enhancement : the ethics of testing cognitive enhancements on non-human research subjects / John Basl -- The capacities, interests, and organisation of artifactual organisms / Sune Holm -- How to evolve a good of your own : the biological interests of instant organisms / Scott Simmons -- Conclusion: Lessons for the future. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Bioethics.
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Bioethics. |
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Bioengineering -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Bioengineering -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Bioengineering. |
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Genetic engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Genetic engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Environmental engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Environmental engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Environmental engineering. |
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Biotic communities -- Effect of human beings on -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Biotic communities. |
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Geotechnical engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Geotechnical engineering. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Sandler, Ronald L.
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Basl, John.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Designer biology. Lanham : Lexington Books, 2013 9780739178218 (DLC) 2013017850 (OCoLC)840464971 |
| ISBN |
9780739178225 (electronic book) |
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0739178229 (electronic book) |
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9780739178218 |
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0739178210 |
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9780739184875 |
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0739184873 |
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