Ethical Perspectives on Synthetic Biology

Biological Theory

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 368-375

  Bensaude Vincent, Bernadette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

Author keywords

Anthropocentrism; Design; Prudence; Public engagement; Risks; Self regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941060694     PISSN: 15555542     EISSN: 15555550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13752-013-0137-8     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Aguiton S (2009) SynthEthics: an ethical and sociological analysis on synthetic biology. Report presented at the 2009 iGEM competition for the award “Human Practices Advance.” http://www.cso.edu/cv_equipe.asp?per_id=164. Accessed July 2013
2. Aldhous P (2006) Synthetic biologists reject controversial guidelines. New Scientist, May 23. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9211. Accessed July 2013
3. Beck U (1992) Risk society: towards a new modernity. Sage, New Delhi
4. Bensaude Vincent B, Nurock V (2010) Ethique des nanotechnologies. In: Hirsch E (ed) Traité de bioéthique, vol 1. érès, Paris, pp 355–369
5. Bhattachary D, Pascall J, Hunter A (2010) Synthetic biology dialogue. Report of the BBSRC and EPSRC. http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/syntheticbiologydialogue/. Accessed 11 Feb 2013
6. Calvert J (2012) Ownership and sharing in synthetic biology: a ‘diverse ecology’ of the open and the proprietary? BioSocieties 7:169–187 DOI: 10.1057/biosoc.2012.3
7. Cameron N, Caplan A (2009) Our synthetic future. Nat Biotechnol 27:1103–1105 DOI: 10.1038/nbt1209-1103
8. Canguilhem G (1971) Machine et organisme. In: La connaissance de la vie (1st edn, 1947). Vrin, Paris
9. Carlson R (2010) Biology is technology: the promise, peril and new business of engineering life. Harvard University Press, Cambridge
10. Deplazes A (2009) Piecing together a puzzle. EMBO Rep 10:428–432 DOI: 10.1038/embor.2009.76
11. Deplazes A, Ganguli-Mitra A, Biller-Andorno N (2009) The ethics of synthetic biology: outlining the agenda. In: Schmidt M, Kelle A, Ganguli-Mitra A, de Vriend H (eds) Synthetic biology: the technoscience and its societal consequences. Springer, Dordrecht, pp 65–80 DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2678-1_5
12. Dewey J (1939) Theory of valuation. University of Chicago Press, Chicago
13. Dupuy J-P, Grinbaum A (2004) Ethics beyond prudence: towards a normative assessment of nanotechnology. In European workshop on social and economic research on nanotechnologies and nanosciences, Brussels, 14–15 April. http://www.stage-research.net/STAGE/content/Nano.html. Accessed Feb 2013
14. Erickson B, Singh R, Winters P (2011) Synthetic biology: regulating industry uses of new biotechnologies. Science 333:1254–1255 DOI: 10.1126/science.1211066
15. ETC Group (2007) Extreme genetic engineering: an introduction to synthetic biology. http://www.etcgroup.org/en/materials/publications.html?pub_id=602. Accessed July 2013
16. ETC Group (2008) Commodifying nature’s last straw? Extreme genetic engineering and the post-petroleum sugar economy. http://www.etcgroup.org/en/node/703?. Accessed July 2013
17. ETC Group (2010) Synthia is alive…and breeding: panacea or Pandora’s box? http://www.etcgroup.org/en/node/5142. Accessed July 2013
18. European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies to the European Commission (2011) The ethics of synthetic biology, opinion no. 25. http://ec.europa.eu/. Accessed 11 Feb 2013
19. European Union (2010) Public survey on synthetic biology. http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_341_en.pdf
20. Fioraso G (2012) Les enjeux de la biologie de synthèse. Report of L’office parlementaire des choix scientifiques et technologiques, Paris. http://senat.fr/notice-rapport/2011/r11-378-1-notice.html. Accessed July 2013
21. Haraway D (1997) Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium. FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse: feminism and technoscience. Routledge, New York
22. Hilgartner S (2012) Novel constitutions? New regimes of openness in synthetic biology. BioSocieties 7:188–207 DOI: 10.1057/biosoc.2012.5
23. Jasanoff S (2003) Technologies of humility: citizen participation in governing science. Minerva 41:223–244 DOI: 10.1023/A:1025557512320
24. Kaebnick G (2009) Should moral objections to synthetic biology affect public policy. Nat Biotechnol 27:1106–1108 DOI: 10.1038/nbt1209-1106
25. Kelle A (2009) Security issues related to synthetic biology. In: Schmidt M, Kelle A, Ganguli-Mitra A, de Vriend H (eds) Synthetic biology: the technoscience and its societal consequences. Springer, Dordrecht, pp 101–119 DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2678-1_7
26. Kogge W, Richter M (2013) Synthetic biology and its alternatives: Descartes, Kant and the idea of engineering biological machines. Philos Perspect Synth Biol 44:181–189
27. Marlière P (2009) The farther, the safer: a manifesto for securely navigating synthetic species away from the old living world. Syst Synth Biol 3:77–84 DOI: 10.1007/s11693-009-9040-9
28. Maurer S (2009) Synthetic biology marketplace: screening out terrorists. The Hasting center report. http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Bioethicsforum/Post.aspx?id=4158&blogid=140. Accessed 13 Feb 2013
29. Meyer M (2013) Aiming high, but investing little. EMBO Rep 14:2. doi:10.1038/embor.2012.19 DOI: 10.1038/embor.2012.190
30. Pei L, Gaisser S, Schmidt M (2011) Synthetic biology in the view of European public funding organisations. Public Underst Sci 1:1–14
31. Rabinow P (2004) Assembling ethics in an ecology of ignorance. Lecture given at the first conference on synthetic biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 10–12 June, 2004. http://openwetware.org/wiki/Synthetic_Biology:Synthetic_Biology_1.0
32. Rabinow P, Bennet G (2007) From bio-ethics to human practices. ARC working paper no. 11. http://anthropos-lab.net/wp/publications/2007/08/workingpaperno11.pdf. Accessed February 2013
33. Rabinow P, Bennet G (2012) Designing human practices: an experiment with synthetic biology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226703152.001.0001
34. Rodemeyer M (2009) New life, old bottles: regulating the first generation products of synthetic biology. Woodrow Wilson International Institute for Scholars, Washington DC. http://www.synbioproject.org/library/publications/archive/synbio2/. Accessed February 2013
35. Royal Academy of Engineering (2009) Synthetic biology, scope applications and implications. http://www.raeng.org.uk/synbio. Accessed February 2013
36. Ruder WC, Lu T, Collins JJ (2011) Synthetic biology moving into the clinic. Science 333:1248–1252 DOI: 10.1126/science.1206843
37. Schmidt M, De Lorenzo V (2012) Synthetic constructs in/for the environment: managing the interplay between natural and engineered biology. FEBS Lett 586:2199–2206 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2012.02.022
38. Schmidt M, Kelle A, Ganguli-Mitra A, de Vriend H (eds) (2009) Synthetic biology: the technoscience and its societal consequences. Springer, Dordrecht
39. Simondon G (1989) Du mode d’existence des objets techniques (1st edn, 1958). Aubier, Paris
40. Sutcliffe H (2011) A report on responsible research and innovation. http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/rri-report-hilary-sutcliffe_en.pdf. Accessed December 2012
41. Vivagora (2009) Cycle de débats: la biologie synthétique en question. http://www.vivagora.fr/. Accessed February 2013
42. Williams B (1981) Moral luck. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
43. Zhang JY, Marris C, Rose N (2011) The transnational governance of synthetic biology: scientific uncertainty, cross-borderness and the ‘art of governance.’ BIOS working paper. London School of Economics and Political Science, London. http://royalsociety.org/uploadedFiles/Royal_Society_Content/policy/publications/2011/4294977685.pdf. Accessed 3 Dec 2012