NanoEthics: Ethics for Technologies that Converge at the Nanoscale

NanoEthics: Ethics for Technologies that Converge at the Nanoscale

http://www.springerlink.com/content/120571/

Publisher: Springer Netherlands

This journal will be a multidisciplinary forum for exploration of issues
presented by converging technology applications. While the central focus of
the journal will be on the ethical issues, it is recognized that these
discussions must be informed by, at least, the physical, biological and
social sciences and the law.

NanoEthics: Ethics for Technologies that Converge at the Nanoscale will
focus on the philosophically and scientifically rigorous examination of the
ethical and societal considerations and the public and policy concerns
inherent in nanotechnology research and development.

These issues include both individual and societal problems, and include
individual health, wellbeing and human enhancement, human integrity and
autonomy, distribution of the costs and benefits, threats to culture and
tradition and to political and economic stability.

Additionally there are meta-issues including the neutrality or otherwise of
technology, designing technology in a value-sensitive way, and the control
of scientific research.

ISSN: 1871-4757 (print version)
ISSN: 1871-4765 (electronic version)

Editor-in-Chief:

John Weckert
Charles Sturt University Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics
Department of Philosophy
University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010
Australia

Publishing Editor:

Springer Dordrecht
Humanities Editorial
Fritz Schmuhl
Van Godewijckstraat 30
3311 GX Dordrecht
Netherlands 

Phone: +31786576281
Email: fritz.schmuhl@springer.com

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Current Issue: Volume 1, Number 1 / March 2007

Date: 29 May 2007