NanoEthics Volume 1 Issue 1

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Editorial

Weckert, John

2007 NanoEthics

doi:10.1007/s11569-007-0009-4

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Nano-ethics as NEST-ethics: Patterns of Moral Argumentation About New and Emerging Science and Technology

Swierstra, Tsjalling; Rip, Arie

2007 NanoEthics

doi:10.1007/s11569-007-0005-8

There might not be a specific nano-ethics, but there definitely is an ethics of new & emerging science and technology (NEST), with characteristic tropes and patterns of moral argumentation. Ethical discussion in and around nanoscience and technology reflects such NEST-ethics. We offer an...

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Ethics and Technology ‘in the Making’: An Essay on the Challenge of Nanoethics

Johnson, Deborah

2007 NanoEthics

doi:10.1007/s11569-007-0006-7

After reviewing portions of the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act that call for examination of societal and ethical issues, this essay seeks to understand how nanoethics can play a role in nanotechnology development. What can and should nanoethics aim to achieve? The focus...

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If and Then: A Critique of Speculative NanoEthics

Nordmann, Alfred

2007 NanoEthics

doi:10.1007/s11569-007-0007-6

Most known technology serves to ingeniously adapt the world to the physical and mental limitations of human beings. Humankind has acquired awesome power with its rather limited means. Nanotechnological capabilities further this power. On some accounts, however, nanotechnological research will...

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Nanotoxicology and Ethical Conditions for Informed Consent

Shrader-Frechette, Kristin

2007 NanoEthics

doi:10.1007/s11569-007-0003-x

While their strength, electrical, optical, or magnetic properties are expected to contribute a trillion dollars in global commerce before 2015, nanomaterials also appear to pose threats to human health and safety. Nanotoxicology is the study of these threats. Do nanomaterial benefits exceed their...

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Revolutionary and Familiar, Inevitable and Precarious: Rhetorical Contradictions in Enthusiasm for Nanotechnology

Sparrow, Robert

2007 NanoEthics

doi:10.1007/s11569-007-0008-5

This paper analyses rhetorics of scientific and corporate enthusiasm surrounding nanotechnology. I argue that enthusiasts for nanotechnologies often try to have it both ways on questions concerning the nature and possible impact of these technologies, and the inevitability of their development...

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Book Review

Bruggen, Koos

2007 NanoEthics

doi:10.1007/s11569-007-0004-9

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Wickson, Fern

2007 NanoEthics

doi:10.1007/s11569-007-0001-z