Emerging Conceptual, Ethical and Policy Issues in Bionanotechnology

This volume provides a critical overview of the nature of nanotechnology (and its applications in the biomedical sciences, i.e. bionanotechnology) and the philosophical and ethico-legal issues it raises. This collection of thirteen articles represents an exploration by scholars from various discipli...

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Other Authors: Jotterand, Fabrice. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edition:1st ed. 2008.
Series:Philosophy and Medicine, 101
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8649-6
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505 0 |a Beyond Feasibility: Why Ethics Is Important for Bionanotechnology -- Knowledge Production in Nanotechnoscience -- The World View of Nanotechnology – Philosophical Reflections -- Nanomachine: Technological Concept or Metaphor? -- No Future for Nanotechnology? Historical Development vs. Global Expansion -- Ethics and (Bio)Nanotechnology -- Bionanotechnology: A New Challenge for Ethical Reflection? -- Nanoparticles: Risk Management and the Precautionary Principle -- Anticipating the Unknown: The Ethics of Nanotechnology -- Applications of Nanotechnology in the Biomedical Sciences: Small Materials, Big Impacts, and Unknown Consequences -- Public Policy and (Bio)Nanotechnology -- Nanobiotechnology and Ethics: Converging Civil Society Discourses -- Allotropes of Fieldwork in Nanotechnology -- Law, Regulation and the Medical Use of Nanotechnology -- Human Enhancement and (Bio)Nanotechnology -- Stage Two Enhancements -- Nanotechnology, the Body and the Mind -- Nanotechnology and Human Flourishing: Toward a Framework for Assessing Radical Human Enhancements. 
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