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== '''Materials''' ==
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*'''ETC Group''' - Publications - ''Syns of Omission: Civil Society Organizations Respond to Report on Synthetic Biology Governance from the J. Craig Venter Institute and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.'' http://www.etcgroup.org/en/materials/publications.html?pub_id=654.
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*'''ETC Group''' - Publications - ''Backgrounder: Open Letter on Synthetic Biology.'' http://www.etcgroup.org/en/materials/publications.html?pub_id=11.
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*'''Arendt, Hannah'''. 1992. ''Eichmann in Jerusalem.'' Penguin Classics.
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*'''Austin, John Langshaw'''. 1975. ''How to do things with words.'' Harvard University Press, July 1.
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*'''Auyoung S. Howell ben Randhawa A Warraick N., Yi J.'''. ''Synthetic Biology & Intellectual Property.''http://openwetware.org/images/f/f0/IntellectualProperty.doc.
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*'''Balmer, Andrew, and Paul Martin'''. 2009. ''Synthetic Biology: social and ethical challenges.'' http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/sites/SyntheticBiology/syntheticbiology.pdf.
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*'''BioBricks'''. ''The BioBricks Foundation.'' http://bbf.openwetware.org/.
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*'''Brent, Roger'''. ''Testimony of Roger Brent.'' http://www.nti.org/e_research/official_docs/congress/house071305Brent.pdf.
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*'''Callon, Michel, Pierre Lascoumes, and Yannick Barthe'''. 2001. ''Agir dans un monde incertain.'' Éditions du Seuil.
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*'''Church, George'''. 2004. ''A Synthetic Biohazard Non-proliferation Proposal.'' http://arep.med.harvard.edu/SBP/Church_Biohazard04c.htm.
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*'''CRI'''. Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire - ''Accueil.'' http://www.cri-paris.org/.
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*'''EHESS'''. EHESS : ''Accueil.'' http://www.ehess.fr/fr/.
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*'''ETC'''. 2006. ETC Group - Publications - ''Backgrounder: Open Letter on Synthetic Biology.'' http://www.etcgroup.org/en/materials/publications.html?pub_id=11.
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*'''Flipse, Steven'''. 2008. ''LIFE to LEGO.'' https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2008/5/56/TUDelft_iGEM_Ethics_StevenF.pdf.
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*'''Gardner, Timothy S., Charles R. Cantor, and James J. Collins'''. 2000. ''Construction of a genetic toggle switch in Escherichia coli.'' Nature 403, no. 6767 (January 20): 339-342. doi:10.1038/35002131.
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*'''Garfinkel, Michèle'''. 2007. JCVI: Research / Projects / Synthetic Genomics | ''Options for Governance'' / Overview. http://www.jcvi.org/cms/research/projects/syngen-options/.
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*'''Haraway, Donna Jeanne'''. 1997. ''Modest−Witness@Second−Millennium.FemaleMan−Meets−OncoMouse.'' Routledge.
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*'''Hermitte, Marie-Angèle'''. 2007. ''La fondation juridique d'une société des sciences et des techniques par les crises et les risques.'' In . Mélanges Prieur.
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*'''Hobbes, Thomas'''. 1651. ''Leviathan.'' Blackwell.
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*'''iGEM'''. Main Page - ''2009.igem.org.'' https://2009.igem.org/Main_Page.
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*'''Stewart, L.'''. 1999. ''Other centres of calculation, or, where the royal society didn't count : commerce, coffe-houses and natural philosophy.'' Vol. 32. Institute for Scientific Information., January 1.
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*'''Kant, Immanuel'''. 1785. ''The metaphysics of morals.'' Cambridge University Press.
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*'''Marliere, Philippe'''. 2009. ''The farther, the safer: a manifesto for securely navigating synthetic species away from the old living world.'' Systems and Synthetic Biology 3, no. 1-4 (December): 77-84. doi:10.1007/s11693-009-9040-9.
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*'''Merton, R. B'''. 1942. ''The Normative Structure of Science.''
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*'''Nagel, Thomas'''. 1974. ''What is it like to be a bat.'' http://organizations.utep.edu/Portals/1475/nagel_bat.pdf.
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*'''NEST'''. CORDIS FP6: ''New and emerging science and technology'' (NEST) Home. http://cordis.europa.eu/nest/.
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*'''NSABB'''. ''OBA - Dual Use Research.'' http://oba.od.nih.gov/biosecurity/.
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*'''iGEM Paris'''. ''Team:Paris/Ethics overview'' - 2009.igem.org. https://2009.igem.org/Team:Paris/Ethics_overview#top.
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*'''iGEM Paris Team'''. ''Team:Paris/Team'' - 2009.igem.org. https://2009.igem.org/Team:Paris/Team#top.
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*'''Pestre, Dominique'''. 2006. ''Introduction aux Science Studies.'' La Découverte.
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*'''Rajan, Kaushik Sunder'''. 2006. ''Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life'' Duke University Press.
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*'''Suet, Pierre-Henry'''. 2009. Note de Veille n°136/137 (juin 2009) - ''Analyse : La biologie synthétique : de la bioingénierie à la bioéthique'' - Centre d’Analyse Stratégique. http://www.strategie.gouv.fr/article.php3?id_article=997.
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*'''Tucker, Jonathan, and Raymond Zilinskas'''. 2006 ''The New Atlantis The Promise and Perils of Synthetic Biology.'' http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-promise-and-perils-of-synthetic-biology.
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*'''Vivagora'''. Cycle 2009 : ''INGENIERIE DU VIVANT 2.0, LA BIOLOGIE SYNTHETIQUE EN QUESTION.'' http://www.vivagora.org/spip.php?rubrique70.
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== '''General Reading''' ==
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* '''J. L. Austin''' : ''How to do things with Words : The William James Lectures delivered at Harvard University in 1955''. Ed. J. O. Urmson. Oxford: Clarendon, 1962
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* '''Judith Butler''' : ''Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative''. Ed Routledge. 1997
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* '''Hannah Arendt''' : ''Eichmann in Jerusalem : A Report on the Banality of Evil'' (1963)
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* '''R. B. Merton''' : ''The Normative Structure of Science'' (1942)
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* '''Thomas Hobbes''' :
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** ''The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic'' 1640
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** ''Philosophicall Rudiments concerning Government and Society'' 1651
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** ''Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiasticall and Civil'' 1651
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== '''Blogs''' ==
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Dailly reading of post in that blogs :
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*http://my.biotechlife.net/
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*http://singularityhub.com/
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*http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/
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*http://oscillator.tumblr.com/
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*http://bookhling.wordpress.com/
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== '''Ethics''' ==
== '''Ethics''' ==
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* Delft ethics reports in the IGEM 08 competition ''Life to Lego'' : [https://2008.igem.org/Team:TUDelft/Ethics_introduction]
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* '''Delft ethics reports''' in the IGEM 08 competition ''Life to Lego'' : [https://2008.igem.org/Team:TUDelft/Ethics_introduction]
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* ''Ethique, médecine et société'' '''Dir Emmanuel Hirsch''', Ed Vuibert : Articles "L’émergence de la  bioéthique", "Les biotechnologies, un nouveau paradigme de recherche"
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* ''Dictionnaire d'histoire et philosophie des sciences'' '''Dir Dominique Lecourt''', Ed PUF : Article "Bioéthique"
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== '''Science Studies''' ==
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** ''Keywords in Evolutionary Biology'' (co-edited with Elisabeth Lloyd). Harvard University Press, 1992
** ''Keywords in Evolutionary Biology'' (co-edited with Elisabeth Lloyd). Harvard University Press, 1992
** ''The Century of the Gene''. Harvard University Press, 2000.
** ''The Century of the Gene''. Harvard University Press, 2000.
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* '''Emily Martin''' : ''The egg and the sperm : How science has constructed a romance based on stereotypical male-female roles''. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 1991, vol. 16, no. 31 [http://anthro120.wikispaces.com/file/view/Emily+Martin.pdf]
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* '''Donna Haraway''' :
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** ''A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century'', 1985 french version [http://multitudes.samizdat.net/Le-manifeste-cyborg-la-science-la] english version [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Haraway/CyborgManifesto.html]
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** ''Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspectives'', in ''Feminist Studies'', 1988, pp. 575–599.
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** ''Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan©Meets_OncoMouse™: Feminism and Technoscience'', New York: Routledge, 1997
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* '''Bruno Latour''' :
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** with Steve Woolgar, ''Laboratory Life: the Social Construction of Scientific Facts'', Sage, Los Angeles, USA, 1979
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** ''Science In Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society'', Harvard University Press, Cambridge Mass., USA, 1987
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** ''We have never been modern'' (tr. by Catherine Porter), Harvard University Press, Cambridge Mass., USA, 1993
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* '''Larry Stewart''' : ''Other centres of calculation, or, where the royal society didn't count : commerce, coffe-houses and natural philosophy in early modern London '' British journal for the history of science 1999, vol. 32
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* '''Eric Sartori''' : ''Histoire des femmes scientifiques de l’Antiquité au XXe siècle'' Plon 1999.
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* '''Marie-Angèle Hermitte''' : ''La fondation juridique d'une société des sciences et des techniques par les crises et les risques''. in Mélanges Prieur, Dalloz, 2007
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* '''Dominique Pestre''' : ''Introduction au science studies'' La Découverte 2006.
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* '''Michel Callon, Pierre Lascoumes, Yannick Barthe''' : ''Agir dans un monde incertain. Essai sur la démocratie technique'' Paris, Le Seuil 2001
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* '''Kaushik Sunder Rajan''' : ''Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life'' Duke University Press May 30, 2006
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== '''Institutional text and researchs''' ==
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* '''Synbiosafe : Safety and Ethical Aspects of Synthetic Biology''' : [http://www.synbiosafe.eu/]
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* '''Centre d'analyse stratégique''' : Note de Veille n°136/137 (juin 2009) - Analyse / La biologie synthétique : de la bioingénierie à la bioéthique : [http://www.strategie.gouv.fr/article.php3?id_article=997]
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* '''Building Bridges Around Building Genomes''' : [http://cstsp.aaas.org/Building_Bridges_Around_Building_Genomes/index.html]
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== '''DIY''' ==  
== '''DIY''' ==  
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* Mac Cowell's talk ''"What is DIYbio in 4 minutes"'' : [http://diybio.org/about/]
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* '''Mac Cowell's talk''' : ''"What is DIYbio in 4 minutes"'' : [http://diybio.org/about/]
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== '''OpenSource initiatives''' ==
== '''OpenSource initiatives''' ==
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* Drew Endy's talk at the 25C3 ''"Programming DNA"'' : [http://hackaday.com/2008/01/05/24c3-hacking-dna/]
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* '''Drew Endy's talk at the 25C3''' ''"Programming DNA"'' : [http://hackaday.com/2008/01/05/24c3-hacking-dna/]
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* '''Janet Hope's works''' :
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** Open source biotechnology: Why and How?
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** Cooperative Strategies for Facilitating Use of Patented Inventions in Biotechnology. Dianne Nicol and Janet Hope
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** Open source genetics: a conceptual framework. Regulatory Institutions Network, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200 Australia.
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== '''Biosafety and biosecurity''' ==
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* '''George M. Church''' : ''A Synthetic Biohazard Non-­proliferation Proposal'' [http://arep.med.harvard.edu/SBP/Church_Biohazard04c.htm]
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* '''Vivagora''' : [[http://www.vivagora.org/spip.php?rubrique70 http://www.vivagora.org/]]
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** Report of the talk ''Les enjeux « cognitifs » de la biologie synthétique'' [http://www.vivagora.org/IMG/pdf/CR-biosynth020409.pdf] and [http://www.vivagora.org/IMG/pdf/biosynth_rep2.pdf]
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** Report of the talk ''Les enjeux sociétaux, culturels et géopolitiques de la biologie synthétique'' [http://www.vivagora.org/IMG/pdf/CR-biosynth040609.pdf] and [http://www.vivagora.org/IMG/pdf/FR_biosynth3.pdf]
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** Report of the talk ''Enjeux industriels, économiques et sanitaires'' [http://www.vivagora.org/IMG/pdf/Fiche_Repere4.pdf]
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== '''Naturality and Artificiality''' ==
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* '''Joachim Boldt et Olivier Müller''' : ''Newtons of the leaves of grass'' In Nature Biotechnology, Vol 26, Number 4, April 2008
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* '''Andrew Balm and Paul Martin''',  Institute for Science and Society from University of Nottingham ''Synthetic Biology. Social and Ethical Challenges''

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Materials

  • ETC Group - Publications - Syns of Omission: Civil Society Organizations Respond to Report on Synthetic Biology Governance from the J. Craig Venter Institute and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. http://www.etcgroup.org/en/materials/publications.html?pub_id=654.
  • ETC Group - Publications - Backgrounder: Open Letter on Synthetic Biology. http://www.etcgroup.org/en/materials/publications.html?pub_id=11.
  • Arendt, Hannah. 1992. Eichmann in Jerusalem. Penguin Classics.
  • Austin, John Langshaw. 1975. How to do things with words. Harvard University Press, July 1.
  • Auyoung S. Howell ben Randhawa A Warraick N., Yi J.. Synthetic Biology & Intellectual Property.http://openwetware.org/images/f/f0/IntellectualProperty.doc.
  • Balmer, Andrew, and Paul Martin. 2009. Synthetic Biology: social and ethical challenges. http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/sites/SyntheticBiology/syntheticbiology.pdf.
  • BioBricks. The BioBricks Foundation. http://bbf.openwetware.org/.
  • Brent, Roger. Testimony of Roger Brent. http://www.nti.org/e_research/official_docs/congress/house071305Brent.pdf.
  • Callon, Michel, Pierre Lascoumes, and Yannick Barthe. 2001. Agir dans un monde incertain. Éditions du Seuil.
  • Church, George. 2004. A Synthetic Biohazard Non-proliferation Proposal. http://arep.med.harvard.edu/SBP/Church_Biohazard04c.htm.
  • CRI. Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire - Accueil. http://www.cri-paris.org/.
  • EHESS. EHESS : Accueil. http://www.ehess.fr/fr/.
  • ETC. 2006. ETC Group - Publications - Backgrounder: Open Letter on Synthetic Biology. http://www.etcgroup.org/en/materials/publications.html?pub_id=11.
  • Flipse, Steven. 2008. LIFE to LEGO. https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2008/5/56/TUDelft_iGEM_Ethics_StevenF.pdf.
  • Gardner, Timothy S., Charles R. Cantor, and James J. Collins. 2000. Construction of a genetic toggle switch in Escherichia coli. Nature 403, no. 6767 (January 20): 339-342. doi:10.1038/35002131.
  • Garfinkel, Michèle. 2007. JCVI: Research / Projects / Synthetic Genomics | Options for Governance / Overview. http://www.jcvi.org/cms/research/projects/syngen-options/.
  • Haraway, Donna Jeanne. 1997. Modest−Witness@Second−Millennium.FemaleMan−Meets−OncoMouse. Routledge.
  • Hermitte, Marie-Angèle. 2007. La fondation juridique d'une société des sciences et des techniques par les crises et les risques. In . Mélanges Prieur.
  • Hobbes, Thomas. 1651. Leviathan. Blackwell.
  • iGEM. Main Page - 2009.igem.org. https://2009.igem.org/Main_Page.
  • Stewart, L.. 1999. Other centres of calculation, or, where the royal society didn't count : commerce, coffe-houses and natural philosophy. Vol. 32. Institute for Scientific Information., January 1.
  • Kant, Immanuel. 1785. The metaphysics of morals. Cambridge University Press.
  • Marliere, Philippe. 2009. The farther, the safer: a manifesto for securely navigating synthetic species away from the old living world. Systems and Synthetic Biology 3, no. 1-4 (December): 77-84. doi:10.1007/s11693-009-9040-9.
  • Merton, R. B. 1942. The Normative Structure of Science.
  • Nagel, Thomas. 1974. What is it like to be a bat. http://organizations.utep.edu/Portals/1475/nagel_bat.pdf.
  • NEST. CORDIS FP6: New and emerging science and technology (NEST) Home. http://cordis.europa.eu/nest/.
  • NSABB. OBA - Dual Use Research. http://oba.od.nih.gov/biosecurity/.
  • iGEM Paris. Team:Paris/Ethics overview - 2009.igem.org. https://2009.igem.org/Team:Paris/Ethics_overview#top.
  • iGEM Paris Team. Team:Paris/Team - 2009.igem.org. https://2009.igem.org/Team:Paris/Team#top.
  • Pestre, Dominique. 2006. Introduction aux Science Studies. La Découverte.
  • Rajan, Kaushik Sunder. 2006. Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life Duke University Press.
  • Suet, Pierre-Henry. 2009. Note de Veille n°136/137 (juin 2009) - Analyse : La biologie synthétique : de la bioingénierie à la bioéthique - Centre d’Analyse Stratégique. http://www.strategie.gouv.fr/article.php3?id_article=997.
  • Tucker, Jonathan, and Raymond Zilinskas. 2006 The New Atlantis The Promise and Perils of Synthetic Biology. http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-promise-and-perils-of-synthetic-biology.
  • Vivagora. Cycle 2009 : INGENIERIE DU VIVANT 2.0, LA BIOLOGIE SYNTHETIQUE EN QUESTION. http://www.vivagora.org/spip.php?rubrique70.

General Reading

  • J. L. Austin : How to do things with Words : The William James Lectures delivered at Harvard University in 1955. Ed. J. O. Urmson. Oxford: Clarendon, 1962
  • Judith Butler : Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative. Ed Routledge. 1997
  • Hannah Arendt : Eichmann in Jerusalem : A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963)
  • R. B. Merton : The Normative Structure of Science (1942)
  • Thomas Hobbes :
    • The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic 1640
    • Philosophicall Rudiments concerning Government and Society 1651
    • Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiasticall and Civil 1651

Blogs

Dailly reading of post in that blogs :

  • http://my.biotechlife.net/
  • http://singularityhub.com/
  • http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/
  • http://oscillator.tumblr.com/
  • http://bookhling.wordpress.com/

Ethics

  • Delft ethics reports in the IGEM 08 competition Life to Lego : [1]
  • Ethique, médecine et société Dir Emmanuel Hirsch, Ed Vuibert : Articles "L’émergence de la bioéthique", "Les biotechnologies, un nouveau paradigme de recherche"
  • Dictionnaire d'histoire et philosophie des sciences Dir Dominique Lecourt, Ed PUF : Article "Bioéthique"

Science Studies

  • Evelyn Fox Keller
    • Refiguring Life: Metaphors of Twentieth-century Biology. The Wellek Library Lecture Series at the University of California, Irvine. Columbia University Press, 1995.
    • Keywords in Evolutionary Biology (co-edited with Elisabeth Lloyd). Harvard University Press, 1992
    • The Century of the Gene. Harvard University Press, 2000.


  • Emily Martin : The egg and the sperm : How science has constructed a romance based on stereotypical male-female roles. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 1991, vol. 16, no. 31 [http://anthro120.wikispaces.com/file/view/Emily+Martin.pdf]


  • Donna Haraway :
    • A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century, 1985 french version [http://multitudes.samizdat.net/Le-manifeste-cyborg-la-science-la] english version [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Haraway/CyborgManifesto.html]
    • Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspectives, in Feminist Studies, 1988, pp. 575–599.
    • Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan©Meets_OncoMouse™: Feminism and Technoscience, New York: Routledge, 1997


  • Bruno Latour :
    • with Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life: the Social Construction of Scientific Facts, Sage, Los Angeles, USA, 1979
    • Science In Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society, Harvard University Press, Cambridge Mass., USA, 1987
    • We have never been modern (tr. by Catherine Porter), Harvard University Press, Cambridge Mass., USA, 1993


  • Larry Stewart : Other centres of calculation, or, where the royal society didn't count : commerce, coffe-houses and natural philosophy in early modern London British journal for the history of science 1999, vol. 32


  • Eric Sartori : Histoire des femmes scientifiques de l’Antiquité au XXe siècle Plon 1999.


  • Marie-Angèle Hermitte : La fondation juridique d'une société des sciences et des techniques par les crises et les risques. in Mélanges Prieur, Dalloz, 2007


  • Dominique Pestre : Introduction au science studies La Découverte 2006.


  • Michel Callon, Pierre Lascoumes, Yannick Barthe : Agir dans un monde incertain. Essai sur la démocratie technique Paris, Le Seuil 2001


  • Kaushik Sunder Rajan : Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life Duke University Press May 30, 2006

Institutional text and researchs

  • Synbiosafe : Safety and Ethical Aspects of Synthetic Biology : [http://www.synbiosafe.eu/]
  • Centre d'analyse stratégique : Note de Veille n°136/137 (juin 2009) - Analyse / La biologie synthétique : de la bioingénierie à la bioéthique : [http://www.strategie.gouv.fr/article.php3?id_article=997]
  • Building Bridges Around Building Genomes : [http://cstsp.aaas.org/Building_Bridges_Around_Building_Genomes/index.html]

DIY

  • Mac Cowell's talk : "What is DIYbio in 4 minutes" : [http://diybio.org/about/]

OpenSource initiatives

  • Drew Endy's talk at the 25C3 "Programming DNA" : [http://hackaday.com/2008/01/05/24c3-hacking-dna/]


  • Janet Hope's works :
    • Open source biotechnology: Why and How?
    • Cooperative Strategies for Facilitating Use of Patented Inventions in Biotechnology. Dianne Nicol and Janet Hope
    • Open source genetics: a conceptual framework. Regulatory Institutions Network, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200 Australia.

Biosafety and biosecurity

  • George M. Church : A Synthetic Biohazard Non-­proliferation Proposal [http://arep.med.harvard.edu/SBP/Church_Biohazard04c.htm]


  • Vivagora : http://www.vivagora.org/spip.php?rubrique70 http://www.vivagora.org/
    • Report of the talk Les enjeux « cognitifs » de la biologie synthétique [http://www.vivagora.org/IMG/pdf/CR-biosynth020409.pdf] and [http://www.vivagora.org/IMG/pdf/biosynth_rep2.pdf]
    • Report of the talk Les enjeux sociétaux, culturels et géopolitiques de la biologie synthétique [http://www.vivagora.org/IMG/pdf/CR-biosynth040609.pdf] and [http://www.vivagora.org/IMG/pdf/FR_biosynth3.pdf]
    • Report of the talk Enjeux industriels, économiques et sanitaires [http://www.vivagora.org/IMG/pdf/Fiche_Repere4.pdf]

Naturality and Artificiality

  • Joachim Boldt et Olivier Müller : Newtons of the leaves of grass In Nature Biotechnology, Vol 26, Number 4, April 2008
  • Andrew Balm and Paul Martin, Institute for Science and Society from University of Nottingham Synthetic Biology. Social and Ethical Challenges