Cultural diversity in nanotechnology ethics.

To Build or Break Away? the Cultural Shaping of Nanotechnology Innovation within and across Categories

Teaching Societal and Ethical Implications of Nanotechnology Through Science Fiction

Societal and ethical implications of nanotechnology have become a hot topic of public debates in many countries because both revolutionary changes and strong public concerns are expected from its development. Because nanotechnology is, at this point, mostly articulated in visionary and futuristic terms, it is difficult to apply standard methods of technology assessment and even more difficult t...

Justice or Beneficence: What Regulatory Virtue for Nano-Governance?

With nanotechnology we are not only moving into a new technological world but into 'a new legal, ethical, economic, social, cultural and political one too'. The article examines the questions of value preference in this transition to the new technological world and proposes to employ the moral concept of beneficence as a regulatory virtue for the governance of nanotechnology. Setting up the con...

The Study of Ethical and Social Dimensions of New Technologies, with Focusing on Nanotechnology

Background: Since the general distrust of a new technology is an important obstacle in the development of this technology, attention to the ethical and social aspects of emerging technologies can play an important role in the development of these technologies. The present study uses documentary and library studies to examine the social and ethical aspects of new technologies with a focus on nan...

Ethical Considerations

("Ethics, Clinical"[Mesh] OR "Bioethical Issues"[Mesh] OR "Ethics"[Mesh] OR "Culture"[Mesh] OR ethics[tiab] OR "value system"[All Fields] OR "Cultural Characteristics"[Mesh] OR "Cultural Diversity"[Mesh] OR "Cross-Cultural Comparison"[Mesh]) AND ("Bioterrorism"[Mesh] OR "Terrorism"[Mesh] OR "Disasters"[Mesh] OR disaster[tiab] OR bioterrorism[tiab] OR hurricane[tiab] OR tornado[tiab] OR flood[ti...