Revolutionary and familiar, inevitable and precarious: Rhetorical contradictions in enthusiasm for nanotechnology

NanoEthics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 57-68

  Sparrow, Robert ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ethics; Funding; Nanotechnology; Public opinion; Rhetoric; Science; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547103524     PISSN: 18714757     EISSN: 18714765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11569-007-0008-5     Document Type: Article

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