The ethics of protocells: moral and social implications of creating life in the laboratory

Introduction to the ethics of protocells / Mark A. Bedau and Emily C. Parke

New technologies, public perceptions, and ethics / Brian Johnson

Social and ethical implications of creating artificial cells / Mark A. Bedau and Mark Triant

The acceptability of the risks of protocells / Carl Cranor

The precautionary principle and its critics / Emily C. Parke and Mark A. Bedau

A new virtue-based understanding of the precautionary principle / Per Sandin

Ethical dialogue about science in the context of a culture of precaution / Bill Durodié

The creation of life in cultural context : from spontaneous generation to synthetic biology / Joachim Schummer

Second life : some ethical issues in synthetic biology and the recapitulation of evolution / Laurie Zoloth

Protocell patents : property between modularity and emergence / Alain Pottage

Protocells, precaution, and open-source biology / Andrew Hessel

The ambivalence of protocells : challenges for self-reflexive ethics / Brigitte Hantsche-Tangen

Open evolution and human agency : the pragmatics of upstream ethics in the design of artificial life / George Khushf

Human practices : interfacing three modes of collaboration / Paul Rabinow and Gaymon Bennett

This is not a hammer : on ethics and technology / Mickey Gjerris

Toward a critical evaluation of protocell research / Christine Hauskeller

Methodological considerations about the ethical and social implications of protocells / Giovanni Boniolo.