The Ethics of Biotechnology / Edition 1

by Gaymon Bennett

Overview

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 the underlying cultural and institutional forces that shape how biotechnologists approach the world, and teaches students how to weigh the ethical significance of these forces. This innovative approach to the ethics of biotechnology, detailed in the volume’s introduction, equips students to track the dynamic interplay of biology, digital technology and the high-tech economy which is remaking the living world today and the human relation to it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472439178
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/16/2016
Series:	Library of Essays on the Ethics of Emerging Technologies Series
Edition description:	New
Pages:	608
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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.