Overview
- The first volume to focus on the ethical and social issues emerging in nanotechnology
- Incorporates international perspectives on a topic of global importance
- Includes assessments from a variety of disciplines, including philosophy, anthropology, social sciences, law, psychology, and sciences
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Nanobiotechnology is the convergence of existing and new biotechnology with the 1 ability to manipulate matter at or near the molecular level. This ability to manipulate matter on a scale of 100 nanometers (nm) or less is what constitutes the nanotechnology revolution occurring today, the potentially vast economic and social implications of which are yet to be fully understood (Royal Society, 2004). The most immediate way to understand the implications of nanobiotechnology for ethics is to consider the real life concerns of communities that are mobilizing within civil society. The conflicts and ethical debates surrounding nanotechnology will, almost by definition, emerge on the fault lines between different civil society actors, researchers and financial interests associated with nanobiotechnology, as well as (potentially) government regulators. These fault lines are all reflected within the concerns (as expressed d- cursively) of the communities mobilizing. This chapter will explore converging d- courses regarding converging technologies. Converging Technologies (CT) are already a familiar theme in the next gene- tion of biotechnology, nanotechnology, pharmacogenomics and proteomics research 2 and development. Nanobiotechnology means that previously separate disciplines (IT, physics, chemistry, and biology) are merging and converging to create new applications and even new life forms through converged technological platforms. Schummer (2004), and Glimell and Fogelberg (2003, p. 43), note the predominance of interdisciplinarity as a core theme of nano-discourse.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Ethics and (Bio)Nanotechnology
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Public Policy and (Bio)Nanotechnology
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Human Enhancement and (Bio)Nanotechnology
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Back Matter
Reviews
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"This is a very important book. The general public really have no clear idea of what happen in the next twenty years regarding medical care … and the manipulation of life. Fabrice Jotterand has brought … these issues to our attention in a non-dramatic, non-alarmist way … . this book will become a core text for students in the relevant disciplines and I suggest should be compulsory reading for those who in any way involved in policy decision making in the medical health care system." (Rob Harle, Metapsychology Online Reviews, Vol. 13 (19), 2008)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Emerging Conceptual, Ethical and Policy Issues in Bionanotechnology
Editors: Fabrice Jotterand
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8649-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8648-9Published: 25 September 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7943-5Published: 30 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-8649-6Published: 20 September 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 264
Topics: Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Ethics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Technology