Emerging Conceptual, Ethical and Policy Issues in Bionanotechnology

Emerging Conceptual, Ethical and Policy Issues in Bionanotechnology edited by Fabrice Jotterand.

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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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Jotterand, Fabrice (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edition:1st ed. 2008.
Series:Philosophy and Medicine, 101
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Medical ethics.
Ethics.
Philosophy and science.
Philosophy.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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