Nanotechnology

Risk, ethics and law

Geoffrey Hunt, Michael Mehta - Collection Science in Society

300 pages, parution le 15/06/2006

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Résumé

Nanotechnology - technology at the molecular level - is held out by many as the Holy Grail for creating a trillion dollar economy and solving problems from curing cancer to reprocessing waste into products and building super-fast computers. Yet, as with GMOs, many view nanotech as a high risk genie in a bottle that once uncorked has the potential to cause unpredictable, perhaps irreversible, environmental and public health disasters.

With the race to bring products to market, there is pressing need to take stock of the situation and to have a full public debate about this new technological frontier. Including contributions by renowned figures such as Roland Clift, K. Eric Drexler and Arpad Pusztai, this is the first global overview of the state of nanotech and society in Europe, the USA, Japan and Canada, examining the ethics, the environmental and public health risks, and the governance and regulation of this most promising, and potentially most dangerous, of all technologies.

L'auteur - Geoffrey Hunt

Geoffrey Hunt is Professor of Ethics at the University of Surrey, UK, and Professional Fellow of the Institute of Nanotechnology.

L'auteur - Michael Mehta

Michael Mehta is Professor of Sociology at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.

Sommaire

Challenge of Nanotech
Part I: Introducing Nanotech
- From 'Wow' to 'Yuck'?
- From Feynman to Funding
- Biomedical Applications
- Nanotech and Complexity
Part II: Regional Developments
- Japan
- USA
- Europe
- Canada
Part III: Benefits and Risks
- Lessons from Earlier Technologies
- Getting Nanotech Right
- Risk, Management and Regulation
- Nanotech and Nanoparticle Toxicity
- Nanotech in Food Science and Nutrition
Part IV: Ethics & Public Understanding
- Global Ethics
- Risk, Trust and the Public
- Society: Lessons from Biotech
Part V: Law and Regulation
- Patent Law
- Civil Liability
- Ethical Conduct and Human Subjects
- Corporate Criminal Liability
- What Makes Nanotech Special?
- Bibliography

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Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Earthscan
Auteur(s)	Geoffrey Hunt, Michael Mehta
Collection	Science in Society
Parution	15/06/2006
Nb. de pages	300
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	615g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781844073580
ISBN13	978-1-84407-358-0