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"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 and meta-level analyses are needed: we sh

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Author

Kristin Hagen, Margret Engelhard, Georg Toepfer (eds.)

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9783319210889

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Engineering, Biology, Science

Updated

2026-03-25