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Responsible nanobiotechnology [Book] : philosophy and ethics / Armin Grunwald.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Singapore : Pan Stanford Publishing, c2012.Description: xv, 383 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9814316806 (hardcover)
  • 9789814316804 (hardcover)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 174.96606
NLM classification:
  • 2012 J-525
  • QT 26.5
Other classification:
  • 174.96606
Contents:
1. Agenda and overview -- 2. Nanotechnology in context -- 3. Ethics, technology, and risk -- 4. Ethics of nano(bio)technology : the program -- 5. Ethics of nano(bio)technology : an overview -- 6. Synthetic nanoparticles -- 7. Toward creating artificial life -- 8. Animal enhancement -- 9. Human enhancement -- 10. Explorative nanophilosophy : more than applied ethics -- 11. Conclusions and perspectives.
Summary: This book comprehensively reviews the considerations of nanotechnology elaborated in philosophy, ethics, and the social sciences and systematizes and develops them further. It focuses on the issues of ethical responsibility regarding chances and risks of nanotechnology and its possible applications in the fields of synthetic nanoparticles, synthetic biology, animal enhancement, and human enhancement. The book has been, thus, put in the context of the keywords "responsible innovation" and "reflective sciences," which have been central concepts in the debates about the relationship between science and society for the last few years.
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Books Books Junaid Zaidi Library, COMSATS University Islamabad 174.96606 GRU-R (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 47325
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-368) and index.

1. Agenda and overview -- 2. Nanotechnology in context -- 3. Ethics, technology, and risk -- 4. Ethics of nano(bio)technology : the program -- 5. Ethics of nano(bio)technology : an overview -- 6. Synthetic nanoparticles -- 7. Toward creating artificial life -- 8. Animal enhancement -- 9. Human enhancement -- 10. Explorative nanophilosophy : more than applied ethics -- 11. Conclusions and perspectives.

This book comprehensively reviews the considerations of nanotechnology elaborated in philosophy, ethics, and the social sciences and systematizes and develops them further. It focuses on the issues of ethical responsibility regarding chances and risks of nanotechnology and its possible applications in the fields of synthetic nanoparticles, synthetic biology, animal enhancement, and human enhancement. The book has been, thus, put in the context of the keywords "responsible innovation" and "reflective sciences," which have been central concepts in the debates about the relationship between science and society for the last few years.

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