Synthetic Biology Ethics: A Deontological Assessment.
In this article I discuss the ethics of synthetic biology from a broadly deontological perspective, evaluating its morality in terms of the integrity of nature, the dignity of life and the relationship between God and his creation. Most ethical analyses to date have been largely consequentialist in...
| Publicado en: | Bioethics Vol. 27; no. 8; pp. 442 - 453 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Oct2013
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