Taking care of the symbolic order. How converging technologies challenge our concepts

NanoEthics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 269-280

  Swierstra, Tsjalling ^a   van Est, Rinie ^b   Boenink, Marianne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b Rathenau Institute KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Converging technologies; Ethics; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949773848     PISSN: 18714757     EISSN: 18714765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11569-009-0080-0     Document Type: Article

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