Perspectives in biology and medicine, 2012, Vol.55 (4), p.554-570
2012
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Synthetic Biology and the Golem of Prague: Philosophical Reflections on a Suggestive Metaphor
- Ist Teil von
- Perspectives in biology and medicine, 2012, Vol.55 (4), p.554-570
- Ort / Verlag
- United States: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2012
- Quelle
- MEDLINE
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Not only the public debate about science but even the way scientists conceive their own work is to some extent determined by cultural images. In the case of synthetic biology, literary figures like the Golem of Prague and its successors, such as Frankenstein's monster, seem to suggest themselves. This article reconstructs some cognitive structures underlying the surface of metaphorical thinking and shows how talking about synthetic biology as similar to Golem-making obscures important ontological, pragmatic, and ethical differences.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0031-5982, 1529-8795eISSN: 1529-8795DOI: 10.1353/pbm.2012.0036Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1317857000
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Abbreviations as Topic, Animals, Biology, Biomedical research, Biomedical Research - ethics, Biomedical Research - history, Clergy, Cultural Characteristics, Culture, Ethics, Fantasy, Folklore, History, 19th Century, History, 20th Century, History, 21st Century, Humans, Jews - history, Judaism - history, Medicine in Literature, Metaphor, Morality, Physics, Religion, Religion and Science, Risk assessment, Science, Synthetic Biology - ethics, Synthetic Biology - history, Terminology as Topic