Kristin Hagen Knihy

Written by a survivor of airbag injuries, this personalized letter addresses the emotional and physical challenges faced by others in similar situations. The author shares her journey, offering insights and support to help readers navigate their recovery. Through her experiences, she emphasizes resilience and the importance of community, aiming to empower fellow survivors. The book serves as both a source of comfort and a call to action for awareness about airbag safety and injury prevention.

"Synthetic biology" is the label of a new technoscientific field with many different facets and agendas. One common aim is to "create life", primarily by using engineering principles to design and modify biological systems for human use. In a wider context, the topic has become one of the big cases in the legitimization processes associated with the political agenda to solve global problems with the aid of (bio-)technological innovation. Conceptual-level and meta-level analyses are needed: we should sort out conceptual ambiguities to agree on what we talk about, and we need to spell out agendas to see the disagreements clearly. The book is based on the interdisciplinary summer school "Analyzing the societal dimensions of synthetic biology", which took place in Berlin in September 2014. The contributions address controversial discussions around the philosophical examination, public perception, moral evaluation and governance of synthetic biology.