Nanoethics is designed to promote further investigations and a broad and balanced dialogue in nanoethics, dealing with critical issues that will affect the industry as well as society.
Contents
Introduction: The Nanotechnology Debate
- Nanoscience and Nanoethics: Defining the Disciplines
- Why the Future Doesn't Need Us
- On the National Agenda: U.S. congressional Testimony on the Societal Implications of Nanotechnology
Background: Nanotechnology in Context
- Nanotech's Promise: Overcoming Humanity's More Pressing Challenges
- Debating Nanotechnologies
- In the Beginning: The U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative
Issues: Preparing for the Next Revolution
- The Nanotechnology R(Evolution)
- Technology Revolutions and the Problem of Prediction
- Complexity and Uncertainty: A Prudential Approach to Nanotechnology
- The Precautionary Principle in nanotechnology
Issues: Health and Environment
- Nanotechnology and Risk: What are the Issues?
- Personal Choice in the Coming Era of Nanomedicine
- Are We Playing God With Nanoenhancement
- Anticipating the Ethical and Political Challenges of Human Nanotechnologies
Issues: Democracy and Policy
- Global Technology Regulation and Potentially Apocalyptic Technological Threats
- Deliberative Democracy and Nanotechnology
- Rhetoric of "Stakeholding"
- Rules of Engagement: Democracy and Dialogue in Creating Nanotechnology Futures
Issues: Broader Societal Impact
- Nanotechnology and Privacy: Instructive Case of RFID
- Nanotechnology and the Military
- Can Nanoscience Be a Catalyst For Educational Reform
- Impact of Nanotechnologies on Developing Countries
Issues: The Distant Future?
- Challenges and Pitfalls of Exponential Manufacturing
- Nanoethics and the High Frontier
- Ethics for Artificial Intellects
- Nanotechnology and Life Extension
Index
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