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Emerging Conceptual, Ethical and Policy Issues in Bionanotechnology (Hardcover, 2008 ed.)
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Emerging Conceptual, Ethical and Policy Issues in Bionanotechnology (Hardcover, 2008 ed.)
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Nanobiotechnology is the convergence of existing and new
biotechnology with the 1 ability to manipulate matter at or near
the molecular level. This ability to manipulate matter on a scale
of 100 nanometers (nm) or less is what constitutes the
nanotechnology revolution occurring today, the potentially vast
economic and social implications of which are yet to be fully
understood (Royal Society, 2004). The most immediate way to
understand the implications of nanobiotechnology for ethics is to
consider the real life concerns of communities that are mobilizing
within civil society. The conflicts and ethical debates surrounding
nanotechnology will, almost by definition, emerge on the fault
lines between different civil society actors, researchers and
financial interests associated with nanobiotechnology, as well as
(potentially) government regulators. These fault lines are all
reflected within the concerns (as expressed d- cursively) of the
communities mobilizing. This chapter will explore converging d-
courses regarding converging technologies. Converging Technologies
(CT) are already a familiar theme in the next gene- tion of
biotechnology, nanotechnology, pharmacogenomics and proteomics
research 2 and development. Nanobiotechnology means that previously
separate disciplines (IT, physics, chemistry, and biology) are
merging and converging to create new applications and even new life
forms through converged technological platforms. Schummer (2004),
and Glimell and Fogelberg (2003, p. 43), note the predominance of
interdisciplinarity as a core theme of nano-discourse.
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