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

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Lanham: Lexington Books (2013)
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This book 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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Radical enhancement and what's wrong with it.Nicholas Agar
Sensitivity enhancement : the ethics of testing cognitive enhancements on non-human research subjects.John Basl
Assessing Efficacy of ‘Neuroenhancing’ Drugs: Normative Problems in Empirical Controversies.David Frank
Remediation vs. steering : an act-description approach to approving and funding geoengineering research.Benjamin Hale
What it takes to justify geoengineering the climate.Nicole Hassoun
The capacities, interests, and organisation of artifactual organisms.Sune Holm
Engineering for virtue? : toward holistic moral enhancement.William Kabasenche
Human engineering and climate change.S. Matthew Liao, Anders Sandberg & Rebecca Roache
Sex selection and the value-ladenness of the procreative liberty framework.Inmaculada de Melo Martin
Why scientists should get out of nature conservation.Don Meier
How to evolve a good of your own : the biological interests of instant organisms.Scott Simmons
The human influence : moral responsibility for novel ecosystems.Allen Thompson & Stephen Jackson
The ethics of embryo selection.Valentina Urbanek

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