Emerging conceptual, ethical and policy issues in bionanotechnology /
[Book]
edited by Fabrice Jotterand.
London :
Springer,
2008.
1 online resource (264 pages) :
illustrations
Philosophy and medicine ;
101
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 disciplines (philosophy, anthropology, law, social sciences, psychology, and natural sciences) in North America and Europe. The book contains four major parts respectively entitled 1) Knowledge Production in Nanotechnoscience; 2) Ethics and (Bio)Nanotechnology; 3) Public Policy and (Bio)Nanotechnology; and.
Springer
978-1-4020-8648-9
Emerging conceptual, ethical and policy issues in bionanotechnology.