1st Edition

The Ethics of Biotechnology

Edited By Gaymon Bennett Copyright 2017
608 Pages
by Routledge

608 Pages
by Routledge

The essays collected in this volume provide students of ethics with essential tools for making sense of emerging biotechnical capacities and the turbulent power relations these capacities are bringing into the world. Unlike previous reference works in bioethics, which focus on specific domains of human activity (such as genetic research or biomedicine), this volume directs students’ attention to... Read more
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.

Biography

Gaymon Bennett is Assistant Professor of Religion, Science, and Technology at Arizona State University, USA.