Designer Biology: The Ethics of Intensively Engineering Biological and Ecological Systems

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Lanham: Lexington Books (2013)
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Designer Biology: The Ethics of Intensively Engineering Biological and Ecological Systems 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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QH332.D475 2013

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9780739178218   0739178210

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Rebecca Roache
Royal Holloway University of London
S. Matthew Liao
New York University
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University of Copenhagen
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