By Chris MacDonald & Bryn Williams-Jones, BioéthiqueOnline 2012- 1-11
Nanotechnology research is beginning to see widespread coverage in the media and popular science literatures, but discussions of hopes and fears about nanotechnology have already become polarised into utopian and dystopian visions. More moderate discussions focus on the near-term applications of nanotechnologies, and on potential benefits and harms. However, in exploring the social and ethical implications of nanotechnology (or nanomedicine, the focus of this paper), important lessons should be learned from experiences in other fields…
Source:http://bioethiqueonline.ca/docs/1/11.pdf
In particular, studies of the ethical, legal, and social issues (ELSI)
