Ambivalences of Creating Life: Societal and Philosophical Dimensions of Synthetic Biology

by Margret Engelhard and Georg Toepfer

Book Overview

"Synthetic biology" is the label of a new technoscientific field with many different facets and agendas. One common aim is to "create life", primarily by using engineering principles to design and modify biological systems for human use. In a wider context, the topic has become one of the big cases in the legitimization processes associated with the political agenda to solve global problems with the aid of (bio-)technological innovation. Conceptual-level...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319210874
• ISBN13: 9783319210872
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 335 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"