NSF Report on Nanotechnology and Human Enhancement

For the past three years, I’ve been working on a grant from the National Science Foundation with my colleagues Pat Lin, John Weckert, and Jim Moor.  The topic was ethical issues in nanotechnology and human enhancement, and we were trying to figure out how nanotechnology will come to bear on human enhancement and what the [...]

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The Coming Era of Nanomedicine

I wrote a paper about the social and ethical implications of nanomedicine–i.e., the use of nanoscale technologies as applied to medicine–which has just come out in the American Journal of Bioethics.  It was featured as a target article, which means that various people wrote responses to the paper and then I got to write a [...]

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