Societal Implications

Authors: Fisher, Erik ; Mahajan, Roop L.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Public Policy
Abstract: This paper argues that the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development (R&D) Act embodies an unresolved tension between two policy trends that pose a growing dilemma for future science and technology (S&T) policy makers: th...
Year: 2006

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Authors: Holt, G.C.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nanotechnology Perceptions: a Review of Ultraprecision Engineering
Abstract: No abstract available....
Year: 2006

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Authors: Wood, Stephen ; Geldart, Alison ; Jones, Richard
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Technology Analysis and Strategic Management
Abstract: The authors of this article summarize the history of the debate about the possible positive and negative societal outcomes of nanotechnology. The current debate has narrowed severely, often reducing the social and ethical risks of n...
Year: 2008
URL: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/content/1/c6/07/87/42/CTAS_A_272547%20Final.pdf
DOI: 10.1080/09537320701726320

Authors: European Network of Science Centers and Museums (Escite)
Publication Type: Web Article
Abstract: This game, produced as part of a Commission of the European Communities Research Directorate Sixth Framework Programme, helps facilitate a discussion about the potential benefits and risks associated with various scientific issues, ...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.playdecide.org/

Authors: Baird, Davis ; Nordmann, Alfred ; Schummer, Joachim
Publication Type: Conference Proceedings
Secondary Title: Discovering the Nanoscale, Columbia, South Carolina and Darmstadt, Germany ; March- October, 2003
Abstract: Interdisciplinary issues in nanoscale research - Joachim Schummer ; A Hierarchical architecture for nano-scale science and technology: taking stock of the claims about science made by advocates of NBIC convergence - George Khushf ; ...
Year: 2004
URL: http://cms.ifs.tu-darmstadt.de/fileadmin/phil/nano/toc.html

Authors: Parens, Erik ; Johnston, Josephine
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: EMBO Reports
Abstract: The article discusses some of the problems of subdividing bioethics into numerous smaller subfields that are keyed to hot areas of science and technology, such as neuroethics or nanoethics. These include the risk of "re-inventing th...
Year: 2007
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400992

Authors: Thompson, Nicholas
Publication Type: Magazine Article
Secondary Title: Washington Monthly
Abstract: During the past few years, scientists have made enormous strides in the field of nanotechnology. The practice of manipulating objects in the range of a billionth of a meter in size, nanotechnology has this year been used to develop ...
Year: 2000
URL: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2000/0010.thompson.html

Authors: Freitas, Robert A. Jr.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nanotechnology Perceptions: a Review of Ultraprecision Engineering
Abstract: Discusses the potential economic and social impact of the possible availability of desktop nanofactories. ...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.rfreitas.com/Nano/NoninflationaryPN.pdf

Authors: University of Wisconsin-Madison Internships in Public Science Education ; Kao, Yvonne ; Karuri, Nancy ; Zenner, Greta ; Sammel, Lauren ; Luebke, Chris ; Anderson, Megan
Publication Type: Web Article
Abstract: This is a collection of three teachers' guides to help middle school through high school students become acquainted with the possible societal implications of nanotechnology. "NanoCommunity" helps students understand how new technol...
Year: 9999
URL: http://mrsec.wisc.edu/Edetc/IPSE/educators/index.html

Authors: Drexler, Eric
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: Published in 1987, this book is the first description of nanotechnology, the science behind it, a history to that point, predictions as to some possibilities, and some cautions. K. Eric Drexler provides the reader with an inside gli...
Year: 1987
URL: http://www.e-drexler.com/d/06/00/EOC/EOC_Table_of_Contents.html

Authors: Jose, Lopez
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Practicing Anthropology
Abstract: Article looks at the inclusion of ELSI (ethical, legal, and social implications) programs in large science projects, and asks if social scientists and anthropologists should be involved in these programs. He argues that many individ...
Year: 2006

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Authors: Mulhall, D.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nanotechnology Perceptions: a Review of Ultraprecision Engineering
Year: 2006

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Authors: Harris, J. ; Ure, D.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nanotechnology Perceptions: a Review of Ultraprecision Engineering
Abstract: No abstract available....
Year: 2006

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Authors: Toumey, Chris
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Anthropology Today
Abstract: Article takes an anthropological approach to nanotechnology and outlines some of the main topics of interest, including origin myths of nanotechnology and powerful futurist narratives that nanotechnology evokes for some individuals,...
Year: 2007

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Authors: Phoenix, Chris
Publication Type: Web Article
Secondary Title: Nanotechnology Now
Abstract: Nanotechnology will create too many benefits and problems to be administered by any one organization or system of rules. This paper surveys the various types of institutions that will be needed and the issues each can address, and r...
Year: 2002
URL: http://www.nanotech-now.com/papers/?area=reader&read=00003

Authors: Bruce, Donald
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: EMBO Reports
Abstract: Nanobiotechnologies represent a rapidly growing field of interest. Several European conferences during the past year have highlighted the wide-ranging potential of applying techniques at the molecular and atomic levels to understand...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1525142/
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400762

Authors: Nano-Bio RAISE
Publication Type: Report
Abstract: This briefing paper published by NanoBio-RAISE summarizes some of the main ethical and societal issues raised by the development and use of nanobiotechnology. It first identifies some of the current uses and development status of th...
Year: 2008
URL: http://files.nanobio-raise.org/Downloads/BPethics.pdf

Authors: Florczky, Stephen J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Journal of Long-Term Effects of Medical Implants
Abstract: This article gives a general overview of some of the main ethical issues that have been raised in recent discussions about the potential societal implications of nanotechnology. The authors discuss some of the "fears" that have infl...
Year: 2007

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Authors: Fisher, Erik
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: NanoEthics
Abstract: One approach that has been suggested as a way to deal with the potential societal and ethical implications of nanotechnology is to ask scientists and engineers to include these kinds of considerations in decision-making processes th...
Year: 2007
DOI: 10.1007/s11569-007-0016-5

Authors: EthicSchool
Publication Type: Web Article
Secondary Title: CORDIS News
Abstract: Starting in September of 2007, a new European Union-funded project has begun to organize university-level summer schools on the ethics of nanotechnologies and converging technologies for the summer of 2008. Dr. Ineke Malsch, the pro...
Year: 2007
URL: http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=EN_NEWS&ACTION=D&SESSION=&RCN=28375

Authors: Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies ; Maynard, Andrew
Publication Type: Report
Abstract: Firms active in nanotech face a paradox: they must plan for risks without knowing precisely what they are. Andrew Maynard, in his report for Lux Research, proposes a number of steps firms and government agencies need to complete app...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.nanotechproject.org/publications/archive/nanotechnology_research_strategy_for/

Authors: Baird, David
Publication Type: Journal Article
Abstract: Paper discusses the obstacles that work on the social and ethical implications of nanotechnology faces, and the unique opportunity nanotechnology presents to re-conceptualize how academics, government regulatory bodies, and the publ...
Year: 2006
URL: http://nsts.nano.sc.edu/papers/Baird_2004a.pdf

Authors: Hughes, Caroline ; Center for Workforce Development, University of Washington ; Nanotech User Facility, University of Washington
Publication Type: Report
Abstract: This is a summary of study done at the University of Washington of faculty members associated with the Center for Nanotechnology or the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences that sought to evaluate the differe...
Year: 2006
URL: https://depts.washington.edu/ntuf/issues/docs/PublicHealthresearchexecutivesummary.pdf

Authors: Weil, Vivian
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Proceedings of the IEEE
Abstract: Setting aside exaggerated notions of both the benefits and harms to be expected from nanotechnologies, we need to focus ethical investigation on specific initiatives at the nano scale that are already underway or planned. The aims a...
Year: 2003
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2003.818326

Authors: Berube, David M.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Journal of Nanoparticle Research
Abstract: This letter to the editor is written by David Berube, in response to an article appearing in an earlier article of this journal, in which the author, a member of the Friends of the Earth, criticized a report put out by this environm...
Year: 2008
DOI: 10.1007/s11051-008-9443-7