Synthetic Biology and Engineering Ethics Workshop

Workshop Booklet

Research Questions

• Responses to Research Questions Received as of 9/27/10

Essential Readings

Engineering Ethics

• STS and Ethics: Implications for Engineering Ethics, D. Johnson and J. Wetmore. STS Handbook, 2008.

Synthetic Biology

• Synthetic “Life,” Ethics, National Security, and Public Discourse, M. Cho and D. Relman. Science.

• The role of social scientists in synthetic biology, J. Calvert. EMBO Report.

• Lab-scale intervention, D. Schuurbiers and E. Fisher. EMBO Report.

Supplementary Readings

Engineering Ethics

• Defining "Engineer:" How To Do It and Why It Matters, M. Davis. Journal of Engineering Education.

• Online Ethics Center. Teaching Ethics to Scientists and Engineers: Moral Agents and Moral Problems.

• Wynne and Felt report 2007, Taking European Knowledge Society Seriously. European Commission.

Synthetic Biology

• Synthetic biology: ethical ramifications 2009, P. Rabinow and G. Bennett. Springer Special Issue.

• Ethical Issues in Synthetic Biology, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

• US Presidential Bioethics Commission on Synthetic Biology

• Social and ethical checkpoints for bottom-up synthetic biology, or protocells, M. Bedau. Springer Special Issue.

• Striking a balance, S. Long. EMBO Report.

• Unbottling the genes. Nature Biotech.

• What’s in a name? Nature Biotech.

• Biotech in the basement, J. Alper and L. DeFrancesco. Nature Biotech.

• Should moral objections to synthetic biology affect public policy? G. Kaebnick. Nature Biotech.

• From synthetic biology to biohacking: are we prepared? G. Bennett, N. Gilman, A. Stavrianakis & Paul Rabinow. Nature Biotech.

• Engineering a new business, M. May. Nature Biotech.

• The sorcerer of synthetic genomes, A. Marshall. Nature Biotech.

• Two-way communication between genomics and society, J. Ouborg. EMBO Report.

• Prosperity, Amelioration, Flourishing: From a Logic of Practical Judgment to Reconstruction, P. Rabinow. Law & Literature.

• The European Group on Ethics of science and new technologies: Opinion on the ethics of synthetic biology.

• A priority paper for the societal and ethical aspects of synthetic biology, M. Schmidt, A. Ganguli-Mitra, H. Torgersen, A. Kelle, A. Deplazes N. Biller-Andorno. Springer Special Issue.

• Synthetic biology in society: learning from past experience? H. Torgersen. Springer Special Issue.