Just this week, our book What Is Nanotechnology and Why Does It Matter?: From Science to Ethics was published by Wiley-Blackwell; I co-wrote it with Patrick Lin and Daniel Moore. The book has three parts: the first is a primer on basic nanoscience; the second explores general frameworks for thinking about risk and regulations of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]