Health Law Review articles from September 2004

Health Law Review archives from September 2004

Stakeholders and technology: challenges for nanotechnology.
September 22, 2004... The innovation trajectory is no longer the linear tale that has been told countless times. As technologies have emerged, their directions have been pushed, pulled, shaped and reshaped by various groups with interests in a given technology's...

A spoonful of trust helps the nanotech go down.
September 22, 2004... Introduction Utopian and dystopian visions of nanotechnology are prominent in both the public press and academic literature. Proponents argue that nanotechnologies will help clean the environment, produce cheap energy and eliminate...

The ruse and the reality of nanotechnology.
September 22, 2004... Nanoscience involves inspection, understanding and tailoring materials at the finest possible level. It is widely expected, and very likely, that nanoscience will lead to extremely small functional entities. It is less well known that...

Considerations for using genetic material in medical nanotechnology.
September 22, 2004... Introduction "Nanotechnology" is a term used by scientists to describe the technologies and processes involving materials, devices and structures that occur on the scale of nanometres (a nanometer is one billionth of a metre), involving...

Compiling the ethical, legal and social implications of nanotechnology.
September 22, 2004... Abstract This paper maintains that although there is much interest at the moment in exploring the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) of nanotechnology, the ability to do so in a critical and reflective way, in part, depends on...

A prospective look at risk communication in the nanotechnology field.
September 22, 2004... Public scepticism and resistance can significantly hamper the development of new technologies. As nanotechnology unfolds worldwide into commercially available products, discussions on how to assess and manage the...

Some thoughts on the economic impacts of assembler-era nanotechnology.
September 22, 2004... Introduction Imagine a world where objects can be built without human intervention. In this future world, very small machines called "assemblers" can position in precise ways nanoscale constructs (individual atoms, molecules, or...

Nanotechnology, privacy and shifting social conventions.
September 22, 2004... 1. Introduction Nanotechnology promises (or perhaps threatens) to change the way we live. Like other novel technologies, nanotechnology will allow us to do new things, and so will present us with new choices. Importantly, nanotechnology...

Solutions follow perceptions: NBIC and the concept of health, medicine, disability and disease.(Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology and Cognitive Science )
September 22, 2004... Nanotechnology, the art of manipulating materials on an atomic or molecular scale, (1) enables a new paradigm of science and technology that sees different technologies converging at the nanoscale, namely (a) nanoscience and nanotechnology; (b)...

Nanotechnology and the Ethical Conduct of Research Involving Human subjects.
September 22, 2004... I. Introduction The purpose of Canada's Tri-Council Policy Statement on the Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (1) is to promote only research that is conducted according to the highest ethical standards. As a condition of...

Building a broader nano-network.
September 22, 2004... I. Introduction Although there is a broadening social interest in the development of a powerful and general nanotechnology, the public discourse to date has largely avoided a comprehensive examination of its social dimensions, focussing...

The case for publicly funded research on the ethical, environmental, economic, legal and social issues raised by nanoscience and nanotechnology (N[E.sup.3]LS).
September 22, 2004... The campaign against GMOs was successful despite the lack of sound scientific data demonstrating a threat to society. In fact, I argue that the lack of sufficient public scientific data on GMOs, whether positive or negative,...