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Nanotechnology is one of the most scientifically exciting and technologically promising fields of research to emerge during the last decades, and there are already nanotechnological products on the supermarket shelves. As many other emerging technologies (some) nanotechnologies raise ethical and societal issues that have to be discussed and analysed, but does this entail that we need a new field of ethical inquiry called “Nanoethics” to handle these issues? That is the question that this chapter attempts to answer. The chapter builds on and significantly extends arguments I have made in a previous paper (Holm 2007).
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Holm, S. (2014). Does Nanotechnology Require a New “Nanoethics”?. In: Gordijn, B., Cutter, A. (eds) In Pursuit of Nanoethics. The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6817-1_3
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