ABSTRACT

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, syntheti

chapter 1|14 pages

Agenda and Overview

chapter 2|34 pages

Nanotechnology in Context

chapter 3|40 pages

Ethics, Technology, and Risk

chapter 4|18 pages

Ethics of Nano(bio)technology: The Program

chapter 5|40 pages

Ethics of Nano(bio)technology: An Overview

chapter 6|44 pages

Synthetic Nanoparticles

chapter 7|36 pages

Toward Creating Artificial Life

chapter 8|24 pages

Animal Enhancement

chapter 9|52 pages

Human Enhancement

chapter 11|16 pages

Conclusions and Perspectives