Converging technologies, shifting boundaries

NanoEthics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 213-216

  Swierstra, Tsjalling ^a   Boenink, Marianne ^a   Walhout, B ^b   van Est, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b Rathenau Institute KNAW   (Netherlands)

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EID: 77949774224     PISSN: 18714757     EISSN: 18714765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11569-009-0075-x     Document Type: Editorial

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