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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2008.
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Edición: | 1st ed. 2008. |
Colección: | Philosophy and Medicine,
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Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.