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The Ethics of Synthetic Biology: Guiding Principles for Emerging Technologies
Author(s) -
GUTMANN AMY
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.1002/j.1552-146x.2011.tb00118.x
Subject(s) - bioethics , commission , engineering ethics , presidential system , synthetic biology , environmental ethics , sociology , presidential address , political science , law , biology , philosophy , engineering , public administration , bioinformatics , politics
Some call synthetic biology an epochal development—the start of a new industrial revolution, the moment humans learned to be gods. Others think it is an incremental advance with an iffy payoff. In these essays, the chair of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues and participants from a recent Hastings project examine the social challenge it presents.