Nanotechnologies and health: juridical and philosophical implications
Although their applications have not yet extended widely due to their incipient state, nano-technologies and nano-medicines may be presumed to be at the origin of the next great technological revolution, foreseeably contributing to a new stage with respect to evolutions in mankind’s progress. Their possibilities are truly immense in enormously varied spheres, but the risks and uncertainties they engender are enormous too. Because access and use of the unceasingly increasing mega-quantity of information they generate will place further strain on the protection of personal life, privacy, the exercise of freedom, as well as the safeguarding of other fundamental principles and rights.
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| Author: | F. Javier Blázquez Ruiz |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-249084 |
| Series (Serial Number) | 25th IVR World Congress: Law, Science and Technology (050) |
| Publisher: | Goethe-Univ. |
| Place of publication: | Frankfurt am Main |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2012 |
| Publishing Institution: | Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main |
| Tag: | diagnostics; health; nano-particles; nanotechnology; respect and protection of rights; responsibility; risks |
| Institutes: | Rechtswissenschaft |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 340 Recht |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Veröffentlichungsvertrag für Publikationen ohne Print on Demand |
