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Outline and detail a new approach to an issue of Human Practice in synthetic biology as it relates to your project, such as safety, security, ethics, or ownership, sharing, and innovation.

http://bioethics.northwestern.edu/faculty/zoloth.html

http://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/research/cores/units/ethics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_ethics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioethics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_biology#Social_and_Ethical

Contents

Abstract

Ethics oriented Analysis of synthetic biology in general and in relation to the NU2010 Bacterial Skin project.

Outline

Preamble or Historical Perspective

Aversion to synthetic life, religious, uncanny valley, Frankensteinian fears http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_biotechnology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asilomar_Conference_on_Recombinant_DNA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_biotechnology http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/07/pl_backstory_timemachine/

Medical (Societal) Ethics

Beneficence, Non-maleficence, autonomy (zoloth principle=fidelity), Justice, (Dignity, Truthfulness)

Moral (Individual) Ethics

Kant(Categorical Imperative, ends) vs Mill(Utilitarianism) vs Aristotle(Character)

Unique Ethical Problems

Ontological Epistemic

Project specific problems

application specific analysis