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Nanotechnologies in Human Enhancement?
Published: Thursday 3 September 2009
The Human Enhancement Ethics Group has released a report entitled ‘Ethics of Human Enhancement: 25 Questions & Answers’ (funded by the US national Science Foundation). article.
The report makes various references to nanotechnologies, nanobiotechnologies and nano-enables objects; an overview of the reports discussion of the impact that nanotechnologies might have on human enhancement can be found in a related Nanowerk Spotlight article.
Follow this link to find out more about the Human Enhancement Ethics Group, to download the report, or to read the related Nanowerk Spotlight article.
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‘This is the best workshop which I have ever attended!’ was the comment a University Reader in Nanotechnology wrote on his evaluation form of the ‘Advanced Workshop Course in Public Communication and Applied Ethics for Nanotechnologists’. * (30th June 2009)
'[T]he public tends to focus on the benefits — rather than potential environmental and health risks — when making decisions about nanotechnology regulation, whereas scientists mainly focus on potential risks and economic values.’ This is one of the conclusions of a study, entitled ‘Of risks and regulations: how leading U.S. nanoscientists form policy stances about nanotechnology’, which aimed to explore the relationship between nanoscientists’ risk and benefit perceptions and their support for nanotech regulation. (19th June 2009)
In this month’s issue of the journal Nature Nanotechnology, Alfred Nordmann and Arie Rip revisit a 2003 publication entitled ‘Mind the gap’: science and ethics in nanotechnology’ . Authored by Anisa Mnyusiwalla, Abdallah Daar and Peter Singer of the University of Toronto, the 2003 tutorial claimed that the only way to avoid a moratorium nanotechnologies, was to ‘immediately close the gap between the science and ethics of nanotechnology’. (1st May 2009)