1. Auflage - August 2007
43,90 Euro
2007. 416 Seiten, Softcover
- Sachbuch -
ISBN-10: 0-470-08417-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-08417-5 - John Wiley & Sons

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Probekapitel

Kurzbeschreibung
New technology often creates novel situations for which no ethical policy exists or seems immediately obvious. In an area as broad as nanotechnology, there will be a range of possibilities for use and abuse. As a result, it is important to separate fact from fiction when considering how to formulate new and appropriate ethical policies. This book provides an introduction to the field; it first provides the reader a foundation in the basics of nanoscience as well as ethical principles, and then covers the most talked-about issues.

Aus dem Inhalt
Foreword.

Ethical Choices in Nanotechnology Development (Mihail C. Roco).

1. Introduction: The Nanotechnology Debate.

1.1 What is Nanotechnology and Nanoethics (Patrick Lin and Fritz Allhoff)?

1.2 Why the Future Doesn't Need Us (Bill Joy).

1.3 On the National Agenda: US Congressional Testimony on the Societal Implications of Nanotechnology (Ray Kurzweil).

2. Background: Nanotechnology in Context.

2.0 Unit Introduction (John Weckert).

2.1 Nanotech's Promise: Overcoming Humanity's More Pressing Challenge (Christine Peterson and Jacob Heller).

2.2 Debating Nanotechnologies (Richard A. L. Jones).

2.3 In the Beginning: the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative (Neal Lane and Thomas Kalil).

3. Issues: Preparing for the Next Revolution.

3.0 Unit Introduction (John Weckert).

3.1 The Nanotechnology (R)evolution (Charlie Tahan).

3.2 Technology Revolutions and the Problem of Prediction (Nick Bostrom).

3.3 Complexity and Uncertainty: A Prudential Approach to Nanotechnology (Jean-Pierre Dupuy).

3.4 The Precautionary Principle in Nanotechnology (John Weckert and James Moor).

4. Issues: Health and Environment.

4.0 Unit Introduction (Jim Moor).

4.1 Nanotechnology and Risk: What are the Issues (Anne Ingeborg Myhr and Roy Dalmo)?

4.2 Personal Choice in the Coming Era of Nanomedicine (Robert A. Freitas).

4.3 Are We Playing God with Nano-Enhancement (Ted Peters).

4.4 Anticipating the Political and Ethical Challenges of Human Nanotechnologies (David Guston, John Parsi, and Justin Tosi).

5. Issues: Democracy and Policy.

5.0 Unit Introduction (Jim Moor).

5.1 Global Technology Regulation and Potentially-Apocalyptic Technological Threats (James Hughes).

5.2 Deliberative Democracy and Nanotechnology, Colin Farrelly.

5.3 Rhetoric of 'Stakeholding' (David Berube).

5.4 The Rules of Engagement: Dialogue and Democracy in Creating Nanotechnology Futures (James Wilsdon and Jack Stilgoe).

6. Issues: Broader Societal Impact.

6.0 Unit Introduction (John Weckert).

6.1 Nanotechnology and Privacy: the Instructive Case of RFID, Jeroen van den Hoven.

6.2 Nanotechnology and the Military (Daniel Moore).

6.3 Can Nanoscience be a Catalyst for Educational Reform (Patricia Schank, Joseph Krajcik, and Molly Yunker)?

6.4 The Impact of Nanotechnologies on Developing Countries (Joachim Schummer).

7. Issues: The Distant Future?

7.0 Unit Introduction (Fritz Allhoff).

7.1 Challenges and Pitfalls in Exponential Manufacturing (Mike Treder and Chris Phoenix).

7.2 Nanoethics and the High Frontier (Tihamer Toth-Fejel and Chris Dodsworth).

7.3 Ethics for Artificial Intellects (J. Storrs Hall).

7.4 Nanotechnology and Life Extension (Sebastian Sethe).