Deliberative Democracy and Nanotechnologies in Health
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چکیده
The ethical, social and political dimensions of legislative regulations of issues concerning the citizens’ health are generally recognized to be of increasing significance in modern deliberative democracies. However, nanotechnologies in health have raised extra difficulties in deliberative democracies’ procedural justice arrangements. Could a deliberative model of democracy based on substantive commitments such as to equal moral and political value of collectively acting persons contribute to cope with difficult risk and uncertainty regulatory issues pertaining to the tremendous advanced applications of nanotechnologies in health? This is the main question for the bioethics oriented inquiry in this paper. Special emphasis has given on the field of the dental health. Deliberative Democracy and Nanotechnologies in Health
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- IJT
دوره 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013