Emerging Conceptual, Ethical and Policy Issues in Bionanotechnology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Jotterand, Fabrice (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Series: Philosophy and Medicine, 101
• Subjects: Medicine.; Ethics.; Philosophy and science.; Philosophy.; Medical ethics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; Philosophy of Science.; Philosophy of Technology.

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...

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.