Ambivalences of Creating Life, Inhaltsverzeichnis
Kristin Hagen, Margret Engelhard and Georg Toepfer
Editorial: Ambivalences in Societal and Philosophical Dimensions of Synthetic Biology 1-8
Carlos G. Acevedo-Rocha
The Synthetic Nature of Biology 9-53
Röbbe Wünschiers
Making-of Synthetic Biology: The European CyanoFactory Research Consortium 55-72
Cyprien N. Verseux, Ivan G. Paulino-Lima, Mickael Baqué, Daniela Billi and Lynn J. Rothschild
Synthetic Biology for Space Exploration: Promises and Societal Implications 73-100
Martin Müller
"First Species Whose Parent Is a Computer"-Synthetic Biology as Technoscience, Colonizing Futures, and the Problem of the Digital 101-113
Walburg Steurer
"Some Kind of Genetic Engineering… Only One Step Further"-Public Perceptions of Synthetic Biology in Austria 115-140
Mirko Ancillotti and Stefan Eriksson
Synthetic Biology in the Press 141-156
Stefanie B. Seitz
Let's Talk About… Synthetic Biology-Emerging Technologies and the Public 157-175
Britt Wray
Public Engagement in Synthetic Biology: "Experts", "Diplomats" and the Creativity of "Idiots" 177-197
Virgil Rerimassie
Early Engagement with Synthetic Biology in the Netherlands-Initiatives by the Rathenau Instituut 199-213
Inna Kouper
A Critical Participatory Approach to the Evaluation of Synthetic Biology 215-241
Leona Litterst
Synthetic Biology-Playing Games? 243-250
Daniel Falkner
Metaphors of Life: Reflections on Metaphors in the Debate on Synthetic Biology 251-265
Tobias Eichinger
Debasement of Life? A Critical Review of Some Conceptual and Ethical Objections to Synthetic Biology 267-274
Johannes Steizinger
Engineers of Life? A Critical Examination of the Concept of Life in the Debate on Synthetic Biology 275-292
Andreas Christiansen
Synthetic Biology and the Argument from Continuity with Established Technologies 293-311
Michael Funk
Synthetic Biology Between Engineering and Natural Science. A Hermeneutic Methodology for Laboratory Re-search Practice 313-323
Martin G. Weiss
Epistemological Implications of Synthetic Biology: A Heideggerian Perspective 325-335
