Designer Biology: The Ethics of Intensively Engineering Biological and Ecological Systems
by Ronald L. Sandler, Nicholas Agar, Benjamin Hale, John Basl, Immaculada De Melo Martin, Valentina Urbanek, David A. Frank, William Kabasenche, S. Matthew Liao, Anders Sandberg, Rebecca Roache, Allen Thompson, Stephen Jackson, Donald S. Maier, Nicole Hassoun, Sune Holm, Scott Simmons
Designer Biology explores the ethical challenges of intensively engineering biological and ecological systems. Drawing on perspectives from biology, ecology, philosophy, and related disciplines, this volume considers the responsibilities, risks, possibilities, and limits involved in deliberately reshaping living systems and the environments they inhabit.
About This Book
Designer Biology examines the ethical dimensions of intensively engineering biological and ecological systems.
The volume brings together perspectives from contributors working across biology, ecology, philosophy, and related fields.
Its focus is the responsibility involved in shaping living systems, including questions about intervention, consequences, control, and limits.
Written for readers interested in the relationship between science, technology, society, and the natural world.
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