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.
- ISBN10 9814316806
- ISBN13 9789814316804
- Publish Date 5 October 2012 (first published 1 January 2012)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country SG
- Imprint Pan Stanford Publishing Pte Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 400
- Language English