Designer biology : the ethics of intensively engineering biological and ecological systems /

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Imprint:	Lanham : Lexington Books, 2013.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Bioethics. Bioengineering -- Moral and ethical aspects. Genetic engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects. Environmental engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects. Biotic communities -- Effect of human beings on -- Moral and ethical aspects. Geotechnical engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects. Bioengineering -- Moral and ethical aspects. Bioethics. Environmental engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects. Genetic engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11404192

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Other authors / contributors:	Sandler, Ronald L. Basl, John.
ISBN:	9780739178225 0739178229 9780739178218 0739178210 9780739184875 0739184873
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Designer biology. Lanham : Lexington Books, 2013 9780739178218

Table of 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.

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