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Authors: Leontis, Vassiliki L. ; Agich, George J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: NanoEthics
Abstract: This article examines the normative model of diseases and its underlying nanotechnologic vision of medicine put forward by Robert Freitas. After explaining this vision in detail, the authors discuss why Freitas's ideas are scientifi...
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.1007/s11569-010-0092-9

Authors: Bawa, Raj
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Current drug delivery
Abstract: There is enormous excitement and expectation surrounding the multidisciplinary field of nanomedicine - the application of nanotechnology to healthcare - which is already influencing the pharmaceutical industry. This is especially tr...
Year: 2011

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Authors: Bravery, Christopher A
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Journal of the Royal Society, Interface / the Royal Society
Abstract: Whenever new technology emerges it brings with it concerns and uncertainties about whether or how it will need to be regulated, particularly when it is applied to human healthcare. Drawing on the recent history in the European Union...
Year: 2010
URL: http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/7/Suppl_6/S789.abstract
DOI: 10.1098/​rsif.2010.0442.focus

Authors: Hock, Sia Chong ; Ying, Yan Mei ; Wah, Chan Lai
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: PDA journal of pharmaceutical science and technology / PDA
Abstract: Nanomedicines refer to drugs, medical devices, and health products developed using nanotechnology with the aim of diagnosing, monitoring, and treating diseases at the molecular level. Due to their nano size, nanomedicines offer adva...
Year: 2011
URL: http://journal.pda.org/content/65/2/177.abstract

Authors: Missoni, Eduardo ; Foffani, Guglielmo
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology
Abstract: Technological innovation is often associated with promising improvement of life conditions and health. However, potential benefits are largely dependent on affordability, availability and accessibility and too often technology fails...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.bepress.com/selt/vol3/iss3/art1/
DOI: 10.2202/1941-6008.1119

Authors: Tyshenko, Michael G.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology
Abstract: Nanomedicine applications are an extension of traditional pharmaceutical drug development that are targeting the most pressing health concerns through improvements to diagnostics, drug delivery systems, therapeutics, equipment, surg...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.bepress.com/selt/vol3/iss3/art2/
DOI: 10.2202/1941-6008.1118

Authors: Vivekanandan, Jayashree
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology
Abstract: Healthcare is one of the key sectors in which nanotechnology is likely to make a major impact in the future. The introduction of nanotechnology to existing medical practices is expected to be extensive, performance enhancing, and ec...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.bepress.com/selt/vol3/iss3/art3/
DOI: 10.2202/1941-6008.1117

Authors: Ebbesen, Mette
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology
Abstract: The focus of this article is fair access to nanomedicine, which refers to the application of nanotechnology to medicine. By use of nanotechnology improved diagnostics and therapy are expected in medicine and health care. Researchers...
Year: 2010
URL: http://www.bepress.com/selt/vol3/iss3/art5
DOI: 10.2202/1941-6008.1121

Authors: Danforth, Tara Lynn ; Abbott, Kenneth W. ; Sylvester, Douglas J. ; Marchant, Gary E.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology
Abstract: Nanomedicine holds enormous promise for the improved prevention, detection and treatment of disease. Yet, at the same time, countervailing concerns about the potential safety risks of nano-technologies generally, and nanomedical pro...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.bepress.com/selt/vol3/iss3/art6/
DOI: 10.2202/1941-6008.1120

Authors: Poletti, Piera ; Piccinni, Mariassunta ; Arnaldi, Simone
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology
Abstract: The present document was developed by a group of scholars from law, medicine, political science, and sociology gathered in September 2008 in Crete to debate the issue of access to nanotechnology in healthcare during an international...
Year: 2010
URL: http://www.bepress.com/selt/vol3/iss3/art8/
DOI: 10.2202/1941-6008.1123

Authors: Piccinni, Mariassunta ; Arnaldi, Simone
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology
Abstract: This editorial introduces a collection of articles that is a collaborative effort to discuss the impact of nanotechnology-based innovation on biomedical products development, on public health infrastructure, and on healthcare servic...
Year: 2010
URL: http://www.bepress.com/selt/vol3/iss3/art7/
DOI: 10.2202/1941-6008.1116

Authors: Marshall, Jessica
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature
Abstract: A project at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, have developed a draft set of recommendations for how to ensure the effective oversight of the emerging field of nanomedicine. ...
Year: 2011
URL: http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110928/full/news.2011.562.html
DOI: 10.1038/news.2011.562

Authors: Duncan, Ruth ; Gaspar, Rogerio
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Molecular Pharmaceutics
Abstract: Depending on the context, nanotechnologies developed as nanomedicines (nanosized therapeutics and imaging agents) are presented as either a remarkable technological revolution already capable of delivering new diagnostics, treatment...
Year: 2011
DOI: 10.1021/mp200394t

Authors: United Kingdom, Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment
Publication Type: Report
Abstract: This report from the United Kingdom's Committee on Toxicology of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products, and the Environment looks at the if the use of certain types of nanoparticles in healthcare products may introduce any new toxic ...
Year: 2006
URL: http://cot.food.gov.uk/pdfs/TOX-2006-28.pdf

Authors: Costigan, Sandra ; United Kingdom, Medicine and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
Publication Type: Report
Abstract: This report, submitted by the United Kingdom's Medicine and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency to the Commission on Human Medicines in September 2006 concluded that it was reasonable to expect that conventional toxicological asse...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.mhra.gov.uk/home/groups/dts-bi/documents/websiteresources/con2025205.pdf

Authors: Faunce, Thomas
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: NanoEthics
Abstract: Environmental and public health-focused sciences are increasingly characterised as constituting an emerging discipline-planetary medicine. From a governance perspective, the ethical components of that discipline may usefully be view...
Year: 2012
DOI: 10.1007/s11569-012-0144-4

Authors: Pellé, Sophie ; Nurock, Vanessa
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: NanoEthics
Abstract: This paper proposes an ethical reflection on personalized medicine and more precisely on the diagnostic technology underlying it, including nanochips. Our approach is inspired by a combination of two philosophical frames of referenc...
Year: 2012
DOI: 10.1007/s11569-012-0158-y

Authors: Dresser, Rebecca
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics
Abstract: Novel nanomedical interventions require human testing to evaluate their safety and effectiveness. To establish a proper evidentiary basis for human trials, nanomedical innovations must first be subjected to animal and other laborato...
Year: 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2012.00708.x

Authors: Resnik, David B.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics
Abstract: Nanomedicine research raises ethical concerns beyond those covered by the Common Rule. Investigators and research institutions should comply with environmental and occupational health laws protect research staff and the environment....
Year: 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2012.00713.x

Authors: MacDonald, Chris
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Health Law Review
Abstract: The growing field of nanotechnology has received considerable attention as of late. The U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative has committed billions of dollars toward research on the nanoscale, and proponents of nanotechnology cla...
Year: 2004

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