Nanotechnology risk, ethics and law
Nanotechnology - technology at the molecular level - is held out by many as the Holy Grail for creating a trillion dollar economy and solving problems from curing cancer to reprocessing waste into products and building superfast computers. Yet, as with GMOs, many view nanotech as a high risk genie i...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London ; Sterling, VA :
Earthscan
2006.
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| Edition: | 1st edition |
| Series: | Science in society series.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627577706719 |
| Summary: | Nanotechnology - technology at the molecular level - is held out by many as the Holy Grail for creating a trillion dollar economy and solving problems from curing cancer to reprocessing waste into products and building superfast computers. Yet, as with GMOs, many view nanotech as a high risk genie in a bottle that once uncorked has the potential to cause unpredictable, perhaps irreversible, environmental and public health disasters. With the race to bring products to market, there is pressing need to take stock of the situation and to have a full public debate about this new technological fron |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781136560712 9781280837531 9781849772051 9786610837533 9786000001544 9781423786511 |
