Rabinow lab

Ethics

Rethink the relationship of ethics and science in view of the highly innovative assemblage of objectives and practices in synthetic biology; analysis of the limitations and advantages of recent bio-ethics projects, including Belmont, Asilomar, ELSI, and Presidential Commissions; empirical research on evolving ethical practices in synthetic biology (including IP and security), monitoring differences in context and practical experience; design and develop collaborative ethical practices that reconfigure science and ethics for synthetic biology; stabilization and transfer of these collaborative practices.

Ontology

Reflect on the form andhttp://synberc.org/intranet/skins/common/images/button_image.png Embedded image essence of the parts, devices, chassis, and systems being created by synthetic biology; analyze the differences between the objects created in older recombinant technologies and those projected in synthetic biology; empirical research tracking how these parts, devices, chassis, systems, and test beds are designed and the ways that evolution and contemporary synthetic approaches differ from and enforce each other; observe and design new institutional arrangements and interventions appropriate to the new objects being brought into the world; stabilization and transfer of new modes of productively assembling scientific, technological, economic, cultural, ethical, and security components.

Security

Media:Response to Draft Governance Report.pdf

Events

Paul Rabinow gave a plenary address at the German Sociological Association Meetings in Kassel, that discussed synthetic biology.

PR gave a paper at Johns Hopkins conference on "Concepts of Life" that discussed synthetic biology.